None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women – here's why men still dominate STEM award winning

Science fields are improving at being more inclusive. But explicit and implicit barriers still hold women back from advancing in the same numbers as men to the upper reaches of STEM academia.

Mary K. Feeney, Professor and Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs, Arizona State University • conversation
Oct. 8, 2021 • ~12 min

John Glenn’s fan mail shows many girls dreamed of the stars – but sexism in the early space program thwarted their ambitions

John Glenn would have turned 100 on July 18, 2021. Today's space program is a giant leap more inclusive than when he made his pioneering orbit of the Earth in 1962.

Roshanna P. Sylvester, Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices and Digital Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
July 13, 2021 • ~12 min

Nobel Prizes have a diversity problem even worse than the scientific fields they honor

With 3% of science Nobels going to women and zero going to Black people, these awards are an extreme example of how certain demographics are underrepresented in STEM fields.

Marc Zimmer, Professor of Chemistry, Connecticut College • conversation
Sept. 29, 2020 • ~8 min

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