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Published: 01 December 2022
Earth Sciences History (2022) 41 (2): 386–409.
... Graham’s agency as a science practitioner, challenging previous analysis that labelled her as a mere observer ( Thompson 2012 ). Thompson has argued that Graham’s work denoted longstanding engagement with contemporary science, framing her contribution to the field of geology within the context of women’s...
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Journal: Elements
Published: 01 June 2022
Elements (2022) 18 (3): 210–211.
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Journal: Elements
Published: 01 June 2021
Elements (2021) 17 (3): 150–152.
... with Elements : among them, four were women (21%). In the past 10 years, there have been 11 PEs, 3 of which have been women (27%). These numbers, though falling short of gender parity, are representative of the proportion of the mid- to late-career women in the field and are indicative of the wider challenges...
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Published: 01 April 2021
Earth Sciences History (2021) 40 (1): 84–101.
...Barbara A. R. Mohr ABSTRACT During the nineteenth century the role of women was very much restricted. In the geosciences, women were not able to study and thus even less able to publish. Here the work of one female writer is presented who, due to her upbringing in an intellectual family with close...
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Published: 01 April 2021
Earth Sciences History (2021) 40 (1): 202–243.
... the Department of Natural Sciences of Istanbul University. A great majority of these women were employed either in the universities or in the MTA. In contrast, the anthropologists of DTCF dominated the establishment of mammal paleontology in Turkey. The earliest representative of this school was Şevket Aziz...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 10 November 2020
DOI: 10.1144/SP499-2019-73
EISBN: 9781786205353
... the total number of project leaders for that time frame. When considering the gender of the project leaders, we do see a positive increase in female project leaders, from 0% women (this number might be inaccurate, it was not always possible to determine the gender of the project leaders in this time...
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Series: Geological Society, London, Special Publications
Published: 01 January 2019
DOI: 10.1144/SP480.6
EISBN: 9781786204240
... studies of both single and married women are explored looking at the influence and interaction they had with Archibald Geikie. They include Maria Ogilvie Gordon, Catherine Raisin, Annie Greenly, Gertrude Elles, Ethel Skeat and Ethel Wood. Geikie seems to have accepted most of the roles that women...
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Journal: Geosphere
Published: 31 October 2018
Geosphere (2018) 14 (6): 2585–2593.
..., and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, including many geoscience subdisciplines, show a persistent gender gap. PROmoting Geoscience Research, Education, and SuccesS (PROGRESS) is a theory-driven role modeling and mentoring program aimed at supporting undergraduate women interested in geoscience-related degree...
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Published: 01 October 2018
Earth Sciences History (2018) 37 (2): 444–449.
... collection. At the same time, Ursula accepted an offer to teach mineralogy part-time at Tufts, which she continued to do for the next three years. (This offer was made by none other than Professor Robert L. Nichols, who had insisted some 15 or so years earlier that geological science was not for women...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(02)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... instantly expanded to global use. Three young women were responsible for this technological breakthrough—Alva Ellisor, Esther Applin née Richards, and Hedwig Kniker. They were hired by Texas oil companies in 1920–1921 for the express purpose of using paleontology, specifically macropaleontology, to try...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(05)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... Figure 1. Figure 1 . Pictured are the first six women to visit the South Pole: Terry Tickhill, Lois Jones, Rear Admiral Kelly Welch, Pam Young, Kay Lindsay, Eileen McSaveney, and Jean Pearson. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy. Figure 2. The A-frame hut the women lived in during...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(06)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... Figure 1. Opportunities for geoscience careers in non-profits, academia, government, industry and where they overlap with research (source: Cantner et al., 2016 ; used with permission). ABSTRACT This is one of several chapters based on a themed oral session on “Women and Geology: Who...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(08)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... adapts Goffman’s “gender advertisements” methodology to analyze the portrayal of women in volumes 5 through 25 of GSA Today , the last full twenty years of monthly publications on news and information for the Geological Society of America. Two forms of gender identity are explored: photographs...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(09)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... such as #ActualLivingScientist and the Earth Science Women’s Network’s #dayofscience are examples of ways to generate conversation and build community in breaking the scientist stereotype. Whether a campaign is one month in length, as the National Science Foundation’s #NSFstories during Women’s History Month, or a year-long...
Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(01)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... by Sanitation Brief Portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards FROM MINERALOGIST TO EARTH SYSTEM SCIENTIST CONCLUDING THOUGHTS SCIENCE FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD Feminist scholars such as Ruth Bleier ( Bleier, 1988 ) have urged us to scrutinize the published work of women whose contributions...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(03)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... TABLE 1. WOMEN WHO SERVED AS CO-CHIEF SCIENTISTS DURING THE DEEP-SEA DRILLING PROJECT (DSDP), INCLUDING THE LEG AND THE YEAR Leg Year Co-chief 24 1972 Elizabeth T. Bunce 39 1974 Katharina Perch-Nielsen 92 1983 Margaret Leinen TABLE 2. WOMEN WHO SERVED AS CO...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(04)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... of geology. Fortunately, she went to college decades after women like Florence Bascom had paved the way for females to attend classes without having to sit behind a screen ( Schneiderman, 1997 ). Moreover, her undergraduate experience was at Vassar, a women’s college that nurtured their students’ future...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(07)
EISBN: 9780813782140
.... Figure 2. American Geosciences Institute (AGI) data on enrollment of female students in the geosciences from 1975 to 2015. The data show an overall increase in the number of women enrolled in geoscience programs in the 1986–2016 study period, with a high point in 2004 for undergraduate programs...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(10)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... v. 2.0.1 ). ABSTRACT Women have historically been underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, specifically within geosciences. St. Lawrence University (SLU; ~2400 undergraduates) is bucking that trend with a 19th ranking by Forbes magazine...
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Series: GSA Memoirs
Published: 07 August 2018
DOI: 10.1130/2018.1214(11)
EISBN: 9780813782140
... TIMELINE HIGHLIGHTING SIGNIFICANT EVENTS THAT AFFECTED WOMEN IN SCIENCE, AND PARTICULARLY WOMEN IN THE GEOSCIENCES Bold text represents AWG-specific events; italicized text represents NSF activities or programs; bold italics represents significant strides by other geoscience...
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