#GAReads | Women can spacewalk. But can they cross the gender line?

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“Women can spacewalk. But can they cross the gender line?”:

All nine recently announced 2019 Nobel science laureates were male, despite a significant and growing cohort of female contenders.

Nor is women’s contribution to science a recent phenomenon.

Ada Lovelace devised the world’s first computer program in 1840. Austrian physicist Lise Meitner led a small group of scientists who discovered nuclear fission. Soviet cosmonaut and engineer Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in outer space in 1963.

Yet women remain vastly and globally underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), comprising only 28 percent of scientific researchers in the world.

Read Mirjana Spoljaric Egger’s full article at Thomson Reuters Foundation News here…