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This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...
Women in Science. The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-15031-X; Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics website at UCLA; Walsh JJ. 'Medieval Women Physicians' in Old Time Makers of Medicine: The Story of the Students and Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages, ch. 8, (Fordham University Press; 1911) (accessed 22 August ...
This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics ...
The leaky pipeline, share of women in higher education and research worldwide, 2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030, Figure 3.3, data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics. In 2013, women accounted for 53% of the world's graduates at the bachelor's and master's level and 43% of successful PhD candidates but just 28% of researchers.
List of British women physicians; List of female Breakthrough Prize laureates; List of female Clarivate Citation laureates; List of female mass spectrometrists; List of women climate scientists and activists; List of women in leadership positions on astronomical instrumentation projects; List of women neuroscientists; List of women who obtained ...
Elizabeth M. Ward, American epidemiologist and head of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Research Department of the American Cancer Society; Rachel Ward, American mathematician; Christina Warinner, American anthropologist best known for her research on ancient microbiomes; Petra Wilder-Smith (born 1958), American dentistry and cancer researcher
The following is a list of female neuroscientists by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in the field of neuroscience This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Participants at the NWSA Conference 2016. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social ...