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Agora Bulletin Board:10th Anniversary L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards
The L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science 10th Anniversary Awards ceremony took place on Thursday, March 6th at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. Koichiro Matsura, Director-General of UNESCO, and Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones, President of L'OREAL presented the awards to the 2008 Laureates: Professor Lihadh Al-Gazali (Arab States), Assistant Professor V. Narry Kim (Asia/Pacific), Professor Ada Yonath (Europe), Professor Ana Belen Elgoyhen (Latin America) and Professor Elizabeth Blackburn (North America). Thirty-seven Laureates from previous years returned to Paris for the special gala ceremony celebrating the program's first decade.
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| |  | | The Many Paths of Change
According to Professor Ameenah Gurib-Fakim there are as many ways for women to change the face of science as there are women scientists. Gender diversity, like racial diversity, can only enrich science and bring new approaches to meeting the challenges of the future.
by Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate 2007 Africa
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| |  | | Weird Animal Genomes and Sex
There are strange things going on with the Y chromosome, so if we're patient enough the face of science, as well as everything else, will definitely change. But it will take a long, long, long time. A very funny post from animal genomics expert, Professor Jennifer Graves.
by Jennifer Graves, L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate Asia/Pacific 2006
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| |  | | Creativity in the Molecular World of Materials Science
As a young girl, Professor Margaret Brimble believed she wasn't a "creative" person. She admired friends who could draw and write poetry and decided she would just have to settle for good grades in Math and Latin. But then she discovered organic chemistry...
by Margaret Brimble, L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate Asia/Pacific 2007
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| | Women, Science and Research: A Fairer Deal
Reaching the top echelons of science is difficult for women researchers who must take time off for pregnancy and childcare. Professor Habiba Bouhamed Chaabouni argues in favor of evaluating candidates for managerial positions in a way that would be more equitable to scientists who are also mothers.
by Habiba Bouhamed Chaabouni, L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate Africa 2006
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| |  | | More Female Faces Will Change the Face of Science
Professor Karimat El-Sayed contrasts the negative attitudes toward science of a group of high school girls she invited to a conference with her own very positive attitude as a student. Science currently has an image problem and Professor El-Sayed discusses ways to solve it.
by Karimat El-Sayed, L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women In Science Laureate 2003 Africa
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| | Ladies Unite!
Women at the top can't possibly have well-adjusted children...It's easy to have it all...men are competitive rather than supportive... Bad ideas die hard, but structural biologist Anita Krisko would like to see us make an effort to kill them off as fast as possible.
by Anita Krisko, UNESCO-L'OREAL For Women in Science International Fellow 2006 Croatia
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| | How Women Contribute to Science: The Case of Behavioral Ecology
Women can and do bring a new dimension to science. Diana Perez Staples offers an intriguing example of what happened when women entered the field of behavioral ecology.
by Diana Perez Staples, UNESCO-L'OREAL For Women in Science International Fellow 2006 Mexico
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In this ode to women scientists, behavioral ecologist Venetia Briggs reminds us how much the face of science has already changed--and how much further we have to go.
by Venetia Briggs, UNESCO-L'OREAL For Women in Science International Fellow 2007 Belize
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| |  | | Toward Creative Science
Plant biotechnologist Sarrah Ben M'Barek writes of the need for a more creative approach in teaching science to young children, especially little girls, in order to close the gender gap that arises in adolescence.
by Sarrah Ben M'Barek, UNESCO-L'OREAL For Women in Science International Fellow 2007 Tunisia
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| |  | | A Career in Science Provides Intellectual Incentives
Science may be many things, but it's never a "boring job". Professor Eugenia del Pino Veintimilla encourages young people searching for professional fulfillment to consider a career in science.
Eugenia del Pino Veintimilla, L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate Latin America 2000
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| |  | | How Women Contribute to Changing the Face of Science
"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." The words of Marie Curie have inspired generations of women scientists, and Rehana Jauhangeer discusses ways society can help young women scientists believe in themselves.
by Rehana Jauhangeer, UNESCO-L'OREAL For Women in Science International Fellow 2004 Mauritius
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| |  | | Policies and Practices to Help Women Reconcile a Career in Science with Motherhood and Family Life
From pro-family policies in research labs to international databases compiling the scientific accomplishments of women, Professor Adeyinka Falusi writes of the measures needed to give women a stronger voice in science.
by Professor Adeyinka Falusi, L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate Africa 2001
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| |  | | More Girls in Science Mean More Women in Science
Bringing more girls to science means changing their attitudes--and ours. From the games and toys they are given as little children to the role models we provide them as teenagers, it's up to parents, teachers and society at large to let them know that science isn't just for boys.
by Katalin Sulyok, Vice-President, Association of Hungarian Support Organizations for Giftedness
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| |  | | Making It Easier for Mothers in Science
Women researchers with children are constantly pulled in two different directions. Flexible work schedules in labs and research institutes are key to combining motherhood and science as well as key to keeping women in the profession.
by Itziar Gonzalez, Spanish National Research Council
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| |  | | Keeping Mothers, Attracting Girls
Astrophysicist and mother of two, Isabel Marquez Perez, believes changing the face of science requires making it easier for mothers to stay and more attractive for girls to enter.
by Isabel Marquez Perez, Institute of Astrophysics, Spanish National Research Council
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