{"id":22441,"date":"2025-02-11T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/?p=22441"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:13:00","slug":"international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-11-2-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/szilard-library\/blog\/2025\/02\/international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-11-2-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Women and Girls in Science 11.2.2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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On February 11th, International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, this year is the 10th anniversary of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (IDWGS) and the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, two significant milestones in the global effort to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment, as emphasized on the United Nations official page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this occasion, new books that support these efforts are presented in ATC reading room and available for loan. Topics include biographies and autobiographies of women scientists, unique stories about fighting prejudice and gender discrimination, significance of international collaboration, women’s mental healthcare improvement, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is an overview of selected new books dedicated to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2025, with a word from their reviewers and publishers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n One step sideways, three steps forward : one woman's path to becoming a biologist (Princeton University Press 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By B. Rosemary Grant<\/p>\n

cientist Rosemary Grant\u2019s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps\u2014not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. In this engaging and moving book, Grant tells the story of her life and career.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Women in global science : advancing academic careers through international collaboration (Stanford University Press 2017) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Kathrin Zippel<\/p>\n

Kathrin Zippel looks to the STEM fields as a case study, where gendered cultures and structures in academia have contributed to an underrepresentation of women, and argues that international considerations can be key to ending the steady attrition of women in STEM fields and developing a more inclusive academic world.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Out of Her Mind : how we are failing women's mental health and what must change (Cambridge University Press 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Linda Gask<\/p>\n

For centuries so called ‘difficult women’ have been labelled as ‘hysterical’ and ‘out of their minds’. Today they wait longer for health diagnoses, often being told it’s ‘all in their heads’. Although healthcare systems are overburdened, why are women the first to feel the effects of this? Psychiatrist Linda Gask explores women’s mental healthcare today and calls for faster change for better.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Elements of Marie Curie : how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science (Fourth Estate 2024) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Dava Sobel<\/p>\n

Approaching Marie Curie from a unique angle, Sobel navigates her remarkable discoveries and fame alongside the women who became her legacy \u2013 from Norway\u2019s Ellen Gleditsch and France\u2019s Marguerite Perry, who discovered the element francium, to her own daughter, Irene, a Nobel Prize winner in her own right.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Ren\u00e9e Schroeder : Alle Molek\u00fcle in Bewegung (Residenz 2019) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Ursel Nendzig<\/p>\n

The biography of the unconventional biochemist is an inspiration for all women to follow their own path.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n The Woman behind the Nobel Peace Prize : Bertha von Suttner and Alfred Nobel (ISBN Norge 2018) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Anne Synn\u00f8ve Simensen<\/p>\n

Bertha von Suttner was a pioneer in the peace movement at the end of the 19th century. This book tells the gripping story of her relationship with Alfred Nobel and how she came to influence him in his decision to establish the Nobel Peace Prize.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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\n \n Dignifying science : stories about women scientists (G.T. Labs 2009) <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

By Jim Ottaviani<\/p>\n

This original graphic novel features famous women scientists including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and Hedy Lamarr. The stories offer a human context often missing when we learn about the discoveries attached to these scientists’ names. <\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n

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