Tag: sexism

• Can the Nobel Prize be fixed?

  Yesterday, the 2019 Nobel Prizes were awarded, but the lack of women science laureates was both predictable and conspicuous. As I point out in my new comic with Maki Naro for Vox, only 19 women have won Nobels in chemistry, medicine/physiology, and physics out of 607 total awardees — a far lower rate than the…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 11, 2019

  Vox

  Nobel Prize, scientists behaving badly, sexism, social justice

• Thinking scientists are smarter than other people hurts us

  [ This blog is dedicated to tracking my most recent publications. Subscribe to the feed to keep up with all the science stories I write! ] I’ve started contributing to the Forbes Science page again! This is my second new contribution; stay tuned for plenty more. (And if I can be shameless: Forbes pays according…

  Matthew R. Francis

  May 9, 2018

  Forbes

  diversity in science, racism, scientists, sexism, STEM