Special issue on Women in Science (the field) in Nature (the journal) (articles appear to be freely available too)

Definitely worth a look at this special in Nature on Women in Science: Special: Women in Science.  Articles seem to be freely available – at least for now (they were not initially).

Here are links to some of the articles:

• Science for all – overview
• Mind the gender gap – about discrimination and other disparities.
• Barred from the boardroom – about women leading biotech. companies (or, the lack of women leading such companies

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen