WHEN we were 16 years old, my friend Karen and I were interviewed for an educational video. With our hair thick with styling mousse, pale blue eyeliner and misplaced teen swagger, we explained why we ...

Later this month more than 300 female physicists from all over the world - and a few token men - will gather in Paris for the first ever international conference on women in physics. Organized by the ...

Marcia Barbosa, who last year organized the first international conference on women in physics, examines what progress has been made since then to encourage women into the field Clear choice ...

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This past Sunday at commencement, Harvey Mudd College graduated more female physics majors than male. For the first time in the College’s history, 52% of the 25 physics majors in the class of 2016 ...

All around the world, there is an extreme gender imbalance in physics, in both academia and industry. Examples are all too easy to find. In Burkina Faso’s largest university, the University of ...

American Cynthia “Thia” Keppel and Italian Patrizia Rossi are research physicists who’ve been probing the nucleus of the atom for years. But there’s one nagging mystery that even these brainy women ...

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Women who graduate with a baccalaureate degree in physics from Eastern Kentucky University are more likely to earn a doctorate degree than physics graduates from most other Kentucky colleges, ...