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Increasing diversity to save biodiversity: Rising to the challenge and supporting Indonesian women in conservation

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2021
Indonesia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world yet suffers from the highest global deforestation rate. Having more diverse voices in conservation science contributing innovative ideas and solutions could benefit the country's biodiversity.
Erin E. Poor   +4 more
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The truth is in the distribution

open access: yeseLife, 2016
There may be as many ways to think about the experience of women in science as there are women in science. Indira Raman offers one perspective.
Indira M Raman
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Should there be more women in science and engineering? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Many people hold this truth to be self-evident, that there should be more female students in science and engineering. Typical arguments include possible benefits to women, possible benefits to the economy, and the unfairness of the current female under ...
Bouville, Mathieu
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Arab women in science [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2020
It's a common trope that Arab women lack equality of opportunity and freedom to engage with the world. The received wisdom is that they are prevented from pursuing an education and a career by religious and/or cultural restrictions. But the truth is more nuanced.
openaire   +2 more sources

A network analysis of subjective well-being in Chinese high school students

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background The psychological situation of high school students during adolescence is not promising, and the most obvious manifestation is the lack of subjective well-being (SWB).
Shiwei Wang   +10 more
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Women Scientists Who Made Nuclear Astrophysics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Female role models reduce the impact on women of stereotype threat, i.e., of being at risk of conforming to a negative stereotype about one's social, gender, or racial group [1,2].
Aliotta, Marialuisa   +26 more
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Geographic and Gender Diversity in the Brazilian Academy of Sciences

open access: yesAnais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2018
Recent studies have shown that diversity in race and gender is important to improve competitiveness, creativity and innovation. However, many studies have shown that the universe of science is not diverse in none of these criteria.
NATHÁLIA C. FERRARI   +6 more
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Scientific careers and gender differences. A qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yesJCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 2008
In Europe, much effort has been devoted to explore the causes of the decline in number of university matriculations of science students and to identify gender differences in career choice.
Daniele Gouthier   +2 more
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'Lessons in Chemistry': The (Un)balanced Chemical Equation of (In)equality

open access: yesCHIMIA, 2022
A literary success in 2022, the novel 'Lessons in chemistry' describes the struggle for recognition and independence of a female research chemist in the conservative USA of the 1950’s.
Olimpia Mamula Steiner
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Pioneer women in the development of toxicology in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Women have always played an important role in the development of toxicology all over the world. Specifically in Brazil, toxicology has had greater female representation than other countries, but women's participation at high hierarchical levels is low ...
L. Melo, T.S. Melo
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