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Science & innovation policy: Gender

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In developing countries, women often suffer slow career progression, or even complete exclusion from scientific and technological activities. What policies and practices are being put in place to redress the balance?

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Opinions and Analysis

ripe coffee beans Don't let price rises blow development off course

Commodity price rises are no substitute for long-term investment in infrastructure and capacity as a means of securing sustained development.

8 August 2008 | EN | 中文

A pregnant woman in Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat, India Risk-averse researchers put mothers' lives at risk

Researchers are putting women's lives at risk by being too cautious about trialling drugs during pregnancy, say Nicholas J. White and colleagues.

24 June 2008 | EN | 中文
Source: PLoS Medicine

Wanted: Imaginative Indian climate scientists

16 August 2007 | EN | 中文
Source: Business Standard

Striving for a truly democratic science

10 October 2003 | EN
Source: Science


News and Features

Students at Cornel University in Qatar New network to raise profile of Muslim women scientists

An Islamic Network for Women Scientists has been established to encourage women scientists to network more efficiently at the national level.

4 August 2008 | EN

Prudence Mutowo Q&A: Closing the gender gap

Prudence Mutowo, winner of a 2006 L'Oreal UNESCO fellowship, speaks to SciDev.Net about her experiences as a woman in science.

30 April 2008 | EN