Dr. Anna Kushnir is writing this letter to technology magazine Wired, in order to express her surprise about female professors in universities outnumbered by men.

 

She is also sharing her experience that they were 7 women and 1 man in the academy during the courses; however number of professors in the academy is suddenly 48 to 7 women.

 

Why do these women go? Why won’t they become professors?

 

Favorite comment of the macho scientists – “well, women are not meant to be scientists” – which is definitely out of any discussion. A simple example; In Italy women are dominating in biomedicine sphere.

 

Just read the blog and give some comments;

 

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05...are-senior.html

Edited June 27, 200817 yr by Eliza

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Mariecurie.jpg/225px-Mariecurie.jpg

Marie Sklodowska Curie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

 

 

Very briefly..I will add a list of Female Nobel Prize Laureates

 

In 1903, only two years after the Nobel Foundation was established, a Nobel Prize was awarded to a woman, Marie Curie, for the first time. Women have been winning Nobel Prizes ever since. In fact, one woman, Bertha von Suttner was influential in convincing Alfred Nobel to establish a Prize for Peace. Women have won Prizes in all categories with the exception of Economics (which was established in 1968 and first awarded in 1969). Feel free to let your opinions be heard on how we can increase the role of women in the Arts & Sciences on our public forum!.

 

Physics:

1903 Marie Sklodowska Curie

1963 Maria Goeppert Mayer

 

Chemistry:

1911 Marie Sklodowska Curie

1935 Irene Joliot-Curie

1964 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

 

Physiology & Medicine:

1947 Gerty Radnitz Cori

1977 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

1983 Barbara McClintock

1986 Rita Levi-Montalcini

1988 Gertrude Elion

1995 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

2004 Linda B. Buck

 

Peace:

1905 Baroness Bertha von Suttner

1931 Jane Addams

1946 Emily Greene Balch

1976 Betty Williams

1976 Mairead Corrigan

1979 Mother Teresa

1982 Alva Myrdal

1991 Aung San Suu Kyi

1992 Rigoberta Menchu Tum

1997 Jody Williams

2003 Shirin Ebadi

2004 Wangari Maathai

 

Literature:

1909 Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlof

1926 Grazia Deledda

1928 Sigrid Undset

1938 Pearl Buck

1945 Gabriela Mistral

1966 Nelly Sachs

1991 Nadine Gordimer

1993 Toni Morrison

1996 Wislawa Szymborska

2004 Elfriede Jelinek

2007 Doris Lessing