SEXISM, SCIENCE AND SCIENCE WRITING: Promoting Women Leaders in the Lab & the Newsroom

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Join us for a provocative panel discussion with distinguished women leaders in journalism, science, and science writing. Despite considerable progress, problems of gender bias, pay inequity, and sexual harassment persist in journalism, science, and science writing.

This event is sponsored by Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program , HKS Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy; Knight Science Journalism at MIT; HKS Women & Public Policy Center; Nieman Foundation for Journalism

Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 Time: 06:00pm - 07:30pm Location: Taubman Building - Wiener Auditorium, Ground Floor

This event is at Harvard Kennedy School's Wiener Auditorium, in the Taubman Building, Ground Floor, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A reception will follow at the Taubman Rotunda.

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This event is sponsored by the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program, HKS Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy; Knight Science Journalism at MIT; HKS Women & Public Policy Center; Nieman Foundation for Journalism

The speakers will share their experiences and pose potential solutions for overcoming barriers and promoting women to top posts in the lab and newsroom. We’ll look also at strategies for educating and mentoring the next generation of women, encouraging them not only to enter the pipeline but to advance toward careers at the pinnacle of their professions. Our panel features:

ANN MARIE LIPINSKI, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard
MEG URRY, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Yale University
JENNIFER BOGO, Executive Editor, Popular Science

SEXISM, SCIENCE AND SCIENCE WRITING: Promoting Women Leaders in the Lab & the Newsroom

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