Rachel Ignotofsky Makes Art Of Women Scientists

Rachel Ignotofsky Makes Art Of Women Scientists

Coincidentally, Jane Goodall, the world’s most famous conservationist and voice of chaimpanzees is featured in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine in Jane Goodall Is Still Wild At Heart. 

The Magazine also explored the issue of why there are no few women in science in October 2013. The reasons are many and strikingly NOT exclusively the result of women’s lack of confidence or an inability to juggle work and family. 

Last summer, researchers at Yale published a study proving that physicists, chemists and biologists are likely to view a young male scientist more favorably than a woman with the same qualifications. Presented with identical summaries of the accomplishments of two imaginary applicants, professors at six major research institutions were significantly more willing to offer the man a job. If they did hire the woman, they set her salary, on average, nearly $4,000 lower than the man’s. Surprisingly, female scientists were as biased as their male counterparts.