Overcoming challenges. Being challenged to overcome. This is the topic for April’s edition of Scientiae, and I received an overwhelming response of your varied tales of challenge and triumph. Further proof that all of us are capable of facing our problems head-on and growing into wiser, more competent people.
The carnival is based out of Candid [...]
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april scientiae – challenges!
Posted in alternative careers, passions, personal story, women on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
to stay or go…
Posted in alternative careers, decisions, women on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The South African Mail and Guardian Online just published another article on the “leaky pipeline”:
Leaving the lab
JESSICA SHEPHERD – Jan 29 2009
They note that women are still leaving the lab at a rate higher than men:
A study for the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry has found that although 72% of the women surveyed intended [...]
daring book for girls
Posted in women on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Finally a book for a girl’s childhood!!
Many years ago a book was written for boys: “The Dangerous Book for Boys” and now a new one for girls, The Daring Book for Girls, has been published – but it is not a girly girl type book although it does have some girl stuff in it. It [...]
uber-success but not in chemistry
Posted in alternative careers, lawyer, personal story, women on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Kate Murashige went from a PhD in chemistry to a very successful patent lawyer:
She was a pioneer in the industry’s patent law. And she continues to help myriad companies, each with vastly different and complicated science, stake their legal ground so they can push ahead and try to bring new drugs to market.
She came to [...]
this goes for all careers
Posted in alternative careers, decisions, women on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Scientist is publishing an article in Jan on how to keep women in science:
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/53655/
They are looking for comments and more suggestions – if you are considering a career change because you don’t feel comfortable in chemistry – why not tell them what would make it better for people who follow you?
a career detour up a mountain
Posted in decisions, personal story, women on September 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Who says you can’t take a detour for few years or a decade?
Down from the mountains
“Having braved Everest and Annapurna, biochemist Arlene Blum is back on a trail she blazed 30 years ago — conquering the toxic dangers in our living rooms”
By Barry Bergman, Public Affairs | 12 September 2007
Armed with wanderlust and a campus [...]
using opportunities at hand
Posted in decisions, industry, women on July 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Joanne Ayre used her industry job to learn and find the right niche for her:
When she left school, she opted for a pure chemistry degree at Leeds University, UK. ‘I enjoyed my time there, but realized that working in the lab was not for me,’ she recalls.
She took a job with GLaxoSmithKline in her local [...]
Why life is tough…
Posted in decisions, university professor, women on March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here is an interesting article on women in academia – and why possibly there are not more!!
Harvard and the Academic Glass Ceiling
By Robert Drago
March 27, 2006
http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/03/2007032701c/careers.html
Sorry! I had the wrong link…
