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Women in STEM
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When Success is Not Enough: Why Women Still Face Barriers at the Top of Medical Research
A study on highly cited women scientists who have succeeded by conventional measures of academic achievement suggests that reaching the top does not mean that barriers have disappeared. For years, CancerWorld has documented the barriers that hold women back in…
Equity:The Word That Shaped Her Career From The Lab To The White House:The Story Of Catharine Young
When Catharine Young talks about inequity, she isn’t referring to it in abstract terms. She grew up in South Africa at the end of apartheid, when systemic injustice was not just visible, it was part of daily life. That early…