The campaign Pretty Curious has launched EDF Energy, the UK's largest producer of low-carbon electricity. It aims to inspire teenage girls to imagine a future where they use STEM – science, technology, engineering and maths - to help make a difference.
The European Commission has launched the campaign Science: it's a girl thing! to encourage girls to study science-related subjects and to engage young women in research careers. Women remain largely under-represented in the science, technology and research fields in Europe, which constitutes a huge waste of talent. The campaign challenges stereotypes on science and show young people, especially girls and young women, that science can be a great opportunity for their future.
Men may cite themselves more than women do because they might face fewer social penalties for self-promotion.
Men cite their own papers 56% more than women on average, according to an analysis of 1.5 million studies published between 1779 and 2011.
The analysis looked at papers across disciplines in the digital library JSTOR and found that men’s self-citation rate had risen to 70% more than women’s over the past two decades, despite an increase of women in academia in recent years. Around 10% of a given paper’s references are likely to be self-citations by the paper’s authors regardless of their gender.
What the analysis, posted on arXiv on 5 July, cannot clarify is whether this trend is a by-product of the under-representation of women in senior academic positions or some separate effect.
According to the paper, academics working in ecology and evolution, sociology and molecular biology are the most likely to cite themselves, whereas historians and classical studies scholars are the least likely.
LONDON -- At the Third Clean Energy Ministerial in London today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a three-part plan to help implement the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment initiative or “C3E” – a Ministerial program aimed at attracting more women to clean energy careers and supporting their advancement into leadership positions. This new program, pursued in partnership with the MIT Energy Initiative, is designed to translate the goals of C3E into concrete, meaningful action in the United States.
