Female scientists start a database to showcase their work — over 9,000 women join them
If young girls can be what they see in the world, then prepare for a new generation of female scientists.
“The excuse that you can’t find a qualified woman, it just doesn’t hold,” said Dr. Kelly Ramirez-Donders, a 500 Women Scientists co-founder and a microbial ecologist and post-doctoral researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Ecology. “Saying that you couldn’t find a women is lazy because there are lots of exceptionally qualified women who can talk to you about their work.”
"Our goal was to get 500 women to sign," she recalled."Within the month we had over 10,000 signatures and then 20,000 [signatures] on our pledge." "In our experience and the studies we’ve seen, there is no meritocracy in science," said Zelikova."There is a structured, hierarchical system where people in power tend to benefit from being in power and white men continued to benefit from the structures that they built."
The Request a Scientist database was created as an easy-to-use resource where someone could go to find a female scientist based on her area of expertise, location, discipline, career stage and areas of interest. The database has also turned into a networking tool for women scientists who want to support each other's work, according to Zelikova.
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