Tagged: women

Featured image: Too few women get to invent – that’s a problem for women’s health

Too few women get to invent – that’s a problem for women’s health - Hot off the press

Guest Author • Jun 30, 2021 •

Rem Koning, Harvard Business School   MacArthur Genius and MIT professor Linda Griffith has built an epic career as a scientist and inventor, including growing a human ear on a mouse. She now spends her days unpacking the biological mechanisms underlying endometriosis, a condition in which uterus-like tissue grows outside of the uterus. Endometriosis can be brutally painful, … Read More

Featured image: Menopausal mood swings can signal more serious mental illness

Menopausal mood swings can signal more serious mental illness - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 12, 2018 •

Tania Perich, Western Sydney University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Most women expect to experience the effects of hormonal changes when they come to menopause and many anticipate increased irritability and mood swings. But mood swings that can be just an annoyance for some women can develop into something … Read More

Featured image: Early gender gaps among university graduates

Early gender gaps among university graduates - The Dismal Science

Paul Walker • Apr 10, 2018 •

In a recent article at VoxEU.org Marco Francesconi and Matthias Parey write on Early gender gaps among university graduates. A summary of their column reads Women earning substantially less than men in all advanced economies, despite the considerable progress women have made in labour markets worldwide. This column explores the recent experience of university … Read More

Featured image: World-first study links birth interventions and long-term childhood illness

World-first study links birth interventions and long-term childhood illness - News

Jean Balchin • Mar 26, 2018 •

A comprehensive study lead by a team of leading international researchers has found significant links between medical interventions used in the birthing process – such as caesarean section and induction – and a child’s long-term health. Illustration depicting Caesarean section. Blausen.com staff (2014). “Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014”. WikiJournal of Medicine 1 Western Sydney University collaborated with University … Read More

Featured image: Frozen embryos better than fresh for women struggling to get IVF to work

Frozen embryos better than fresh for women struggling to get IVF to work - News

Jean Balchin • Mar 23, 2018 •

A recent study conducted by a research team at The University of Western Australia and Fertility Specialists of Western Australia has found that women undergoing IVF who have had embryos fail to implant have more success using frozen ones than fresh ones. In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is an assisted reproductive technology (ART). It involves extracting eggs, retrieving a sperm sample, … Read More

Featured image: Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history

Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 20, 2018 •

Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology and Lara Nicosia, Rochester Institute of Technology This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Movements like #MeToo are drawing increased attention to the systemic discrimination facing women in a range of professional fields, from Hollywood and journalism to banking and government. Discrimination is … Read More

Featured image: Global study finds women hold different views of harassment

Global study finds women hold different views of harassment - News

Jean Balchin • Feb 08, 2018 •

A recent survey of 1,734 female undergraduate students across 12 countries has revealed that women have different perceptions of inappropriate behaviour by men across 47 different categories. For example, Australian woman are less likely to consider wolf-whistling in the street, being asked for sex at a social event and a man overstaying his welcome in their home as unacceptable behaviour than … Read More

Featured image: How fair is it for just three people to receive the Nobel Prize in physics?

How fair is it for just three people to receive the Nobel Prize in physics? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jan 24, 2018 •

Caroline Wagner, The Ohio State University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. The Nobel Foundation statutes decree that “in no case” can a Nobel Prize be divided between more than three people. So it may not raise many eyebrows that the 2017 award in physics went to just … Read More

Featured image: The women who don’t know they’re autistic

The women who don’t know they’re autistic - Guest Work

Guest Author • Jul 21, 2017 •

Fabienne Cazalis, École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales (EHESS) This article was co-written by Adeline Lacroix, who works with Fabienne Cazalis and was recently diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. A second year master’s student in psychology, she is working on a scientific literature review about the characteristics of high-functioning autistic women. Let’s call her Sophie. The description we’ll … Read More

Featured image: Women aren’t failing at science — science is failing women

Women aren’t failing at science — science is failing women - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 01, 2017 •

By Lorena Rivera León, United Nations University Female research scientists are more productive than their male colleagues, though they are widely perceived as being less so. Women are also rewarded less for their scientific achievements. That’s according to my team’s recent study for United Nations University – Merit on gender inequality in scientific research in Mexico, published as … Read More