Film Screening: Picture a Scientist
09 March 2021, 8:00 pm–10:00 pm
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The Institute for Women’s Health will be hosting four, free, online events to celebrate #iwd2021. Please book via the Eventbrite links. All events will be available on YouTube.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Carla Logon Bishop – EGA Institute for Women's Health
This independent documentary follows a groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Featuring geologist Jane Willenbring, chemist Raychelle Burks, and biologist Nancy Hopkins, as well as key social scientists working to understand and reduce gender bias in the sciences, Picture a Scientist brings diversity in science into sharp view at a critical time. The current pandemic is a call to action for scientists to work together globally, with a multitude of different perspectives, to defeat COVID-19. For too long, women and other minorities in science have been left out or driven out, stymied by a system of harassment, discrimination, and general bias. “Any impediment to advancing minorities in science is an impediment to science itself,” says Sharon Shattuck, co-director of Picture a Scientist. The film is 97 minutes long and will be followed by a short Q and A chaired by Dr. Rajvinder Karda,
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Women’s Health, University College London.