Firsts for feminism

A Year of Firsts

This editorial recounts highlights from 2013 for CBE—Life Sciences Education and notes activities on the horizon for 2014.

Looking for Feminism

In a recent talk given at a North American University, a prominent feminist scholar from the United States observed that the contributions of Black women in mass political movements have been given short shrift in both conventional male-centred narratives of revolutionary movements (such as the Black Power movement in the USA), and mainstream feminist accounts of women’s activism, because inter...

A Meeting Full of Firsts

In the run-up to the Spring ACS National Meeting in Denver, Prof. Christopher J. Cramer at the University of Minnesota (@chemprofcramer), probed Twitter’s chemistry community as to which was the first ACS National Meeting they recalled attending. Answers ranged from “last year” to 20, 30 years earlier. Remarkably, nearly everyone remembered not only the location, but year and season of their fi...

Has Feminism Changed Physics?

Feminism and Psychology

Starting in the 1960s, feminists argued that the discipline of psychology had neglected the study of women and gender and misrepresented women in its research and theories. Feminists also posed many questions worthy of being addressed by psychological science. This call for research preceded the emergence of a new and influential body of research on gender and women that grew especially rapidly...