Opinion | ISRO’s work ethic can now inspire india’s take-off
5 years, 7 months ago

Opinion | ISRO’s work ethic can now inspire india’s take-off

Live Mint  

Last week, the Indian Space Research Organisation or Isro launched a second unmanned mission to the Moon. Unlike last time, this time Isro will attempt a soft landing on the south pole of the Moon on 7 September—if it succeeds, it will make India only the fourth country in the world after the US, Russia and China to achieve this capability. Overall, the share of women in Isro’s workforce is estimated to be around a fifth; nowhere near the ideal, yet something few organizations in the country can match. Similarly, Isro’s success is despite the fact that for a large part of the last three decades, it has had to cope with the pressure of sanctions which denied it access to cutting edge technology.

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An equitable future for women in science, in India
2 weeks, 6 days ago

An equitable future for women in science, in India

The Hindu  

Women in science navigate a minefield of challenges that often start early. A study of STEM scientists across 38 countries reveals higher attrition rates for women, driven by non-inclusive workplaces, work-life balance struggles, and limited access to high-impact research. Jacob Clark Blickenstaff’s “leaky pipeline” metaphor describes women dropping out of STEM due to biased pedagogy, a lack of role models, …

Leadership and innovation: Addressing the gender gap in India’s STEM ecosystem
3 weeks, 1 day ago

Leadership and innovation: Addressing the gender gap in India’s STEM ecosystem

Hindustan Times  

Scientists are often romanticised as geeky specialists working alone in the pursuit of a breakthrough idea. The mid-career stage—roughly between 10 and 25 years into a person’s career, often preceding senior leadership and decision-making roles—is particularly vulnerable for women working in health, STEM, and allied fields. An analysis of WomenLift Health data shows that at the mid-career stage, without intentional …

Passion, not pay, fuels India's space aspirations, says ISRO Chief
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Passion, not pay, fuels India's space aspirations, says ISRO Chief

India Today  

In the fast-evolving world of space technology, ISRO has captivated both India and the global community with groundbreaking missions like Chandrayaan-3 and Gaganyaan. But this is a space that is driven by passion.” For ISRO Chief, contributing to India’s strides in space technology is the real currency for those who choose this path. “This way, students with space-related aspirations can …

Women Scientists in India Exit STEM Careers Despite High PhD Numbers as Gender Gap Widens in Academia
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Women Scientists in India Exit STEM Careers Despite High PhD Numbers as Gender Gap Widens in Academia

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 06, 2024 21:10 IST - 8 MINS READ Uma’s academic track record was what any scientist would dream of: she completed her PhD in molecular biology, and continued on her career path after her marriage, becoming an assistant professor at a new Central University in the Northeast. When the authors reached out to women scientists, they found …

Shattering Stereotypes: Women Innovators Take Centre Stage at News18 SheShakti 2024
6 months, 1 week ago

Shattering Stereotypes: Women Innovators Take Centre Stage at News18 SheShakti 2024

News 18  

Indian women are breaking barriers across industries and making significant global strides, and News18 SheShakti 2024 celebrates these trailblazers under the theme ‘Breaking Barriers’. Expanding the focus from science to technology, Radhika Yuvraj Iyengar, India’s Country Director for Women in Tech Global, will discuss her initiatives to champion gender diversity in STEAM, aiming to empower 5 million women and girls …

Life on Mars, the next big bet for Indian women scientists
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Life on Mars, the next big bet for Indian women scientists

The Hindu  

India has a rich history of women scientists who have made significant contributions to the field of science. Dr. Thomas, also known as the Missile Woman of India, is the Director General of Aeronautical Systems, and the former Project Director for Agni-IV missile in Defence Research and Development Organisation, and Ms. Kalahasti was the Associate Project Director for Chandrayaan –3, …

Gender gaps and gajras in women’s world of science
1 year, 3 months ago

Gender gaps and gajras in women’s world of science

The Hindu  

There is a tendency to see science as being above society, untouched by the regular society’s biases, points out independent science journalist Nandita Jayaraj, the co-author of Lab Hopping: A Journey to Find India’s Women In Science. “Because of that, they get away with a lot,” she says at a session titled Lab Hopping: Women Scientists in India, one of …

The gender gap: Only 16% of Indian STEM faculty members are women
1 year, 4 months ago

The gender gap: Only 16% of Indian STEM faculty members are women

Live Mint  

Women make up only about 16% of Indian STEM faculty members in Indian universities and institutions, a new study, published in preprint repository bioRxiv, has revealed. The study, Women’s representation in Indian academia and conferences, published by scientists Shruti Muralidhar and Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan, highlights the dearth of women researchers in Indian academia. From microaggressions to harassment, there is a range …

DC Edit | Isro powering India's dreams
1 year, 5 months ago

DC Edit | Isro powering India's dreams

Deccan Chronicle  

Since Independence, India might have made strides in several areas, such as pharmaceuticals, information technology and agriculture. The Indian Space Research Organisation is shining bright with an aura for two reasons: One, people still consider sky and rocketry awe-inspiring and two, Isro tells us about the unflinching determination of a few underfunded men and women to reach the sky and …

How Isro is trying to rebrand itself as approachable
1 year, 5 months ago

How Isro is trying to rebrand itself as approachable

Live Mint  

When the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-3 mission landed on the moon, more than 8 million people tuned in for the event’s YouTube live-stream—a record for the site. There was hesitation in talking about its missions and somewhat of a culture of secrecy,” said Namrata Goswami, a space policy expert and professor at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at …

The sky is not the limit: probing the minds of scientists associated with ISRO
1 year, 6 months ago

The sky is not the limit: probing the minds of scientists associated with ISRO

The Hindu  

India erupted in joy when the Chandrayaan-3 lander with a rover inside touched down on the moon last week, marking a moment in history. Between 1947 and 1971, Sarabhai conducted research into cosmic rays, headed the Atomic Energy Commission; envisioned agricultural complexes serviced by atomic power; desalinated sea water; set up India’s first textile research cooperative, the first market research …

The long, slow journey of Isro’s women scientists
1 year, 6 months ago

The long, slow journey of Isro’s women scientists

Live Mint  

During the Chandrayaan-3 moon landing, one of the most delightful sights, for me, was seeing many women at consoles in the control centre, focused and actively involved in one of Isro’s most prestigious launches. After the Vikram lander’s successful touchdown on the moon came another delightful sight—so many women engineers, scientists and administrative staff laughing and cheering, rejoicing in the …

Chandrayaan-3 success puts India’s ‘rocket women’ in the spotlight
1 year, 6 months ago

Chandrayaan-3 success puts India’s ‘rocket women’ in the spotlight

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 29, 2023 14:57 IST - 4 MINS READ On August 26, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with several female scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation to highlight the role women played in Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission. Modi also decided to name Chandrayaan-3’s landing spot on the moon “Shiv Shakti”, a name derived from the concept of feminine …

’Chandrayaan mission, a living example of women’s power: PM Modi in Mann Ki Baat
1 year, 7 months ago

’Chandrayaan mission, a living example of women’s power: PM Modi in Mann Ki Baat

Live Mint  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing the 104th episode of Mann Ki Baat lauded the women empowerment and said that ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 mission is a living example of women's power. Where the capability of women's power is added impossible is made possible.” PM Modi further said that Mission Chandrayaan is also a living example of women's power. Earlier on Saturday, …

ISRO | Mission possible
1 year, 7 months ago

ISRO | Mission possible

The Hindu  

A memorable black-and-white photograph from the early days of the Indian space programme shows the nose cone of a small rocket being taken to the launchpad on the carrier rack of a bicycle. Truth is, the ISRO had made it to the elite space club much before the Chandrayaan-3 mission’s ‘Vikram’ lander touched down on the lunar south pole on …

Chandrayaan-3: What women scientists of ISRO said after PM Modi's inspirational speech in Bengaluru | VIDEO
1 year, 7 months ago

Chandrayaan-3: What women scientists of ISRO said after PM Modi's inspirational speech in Bengaluru | VIDEO

India TV News  

PM Modi in Bengaluru : Prime Minister Narendra Modi today interacted with the women scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation, who were involved in the Chandrayaan-3 project, commending the key role that they played in the successful culmination of India's maiden lunar landing mission. "We are proud and PM Modi gave a highly inspirational speech," said Muthu Selvi, Senior …

Chandrayaan opens new vistas for India
1 year, 7 months ago

Chandrayaan opens new vistas for India

Hindustan Times  

As Vikram touched down on the surface of the Moon smoothly and safely on Wednesday evening, India became the fourth nation to soft-land an uncrewed craft on the lunar surface, and notably, the first to soft-land on the south pole of the Moon. Every Indian rejoiced with pride while the whole world watched with awe our rising acumen in the …

Book Review: ‘Lab Hopping: A Journey to find India’s women in Science’ by Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj
1 year, 9 months ago

Book Review: ‘Lab Hopping: A Journey to find India’s women in Science’ by Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 02, 2023 15:51 IST - 10 MINS READ Some weeks before their Bengaluru-based science magazine would close, the writers of Lab Hopping, Ashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj, received a lunch invite from their company HR on March 8, 2015. Lab Hopping: A Journey to find India’s women in Science Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jayaraj Penguin/Viking Pages: 302 …

False stereotypes must get out of gender equality’s way
3 years, 2 months ago

False stereotypes must get out of gender equality’s way

Live Mint  

While a Chinese woman astronaut was embarking on her second space voyage and first space walk, the media mostly highlighted the sexist comments and condescending remarks hurled at her, rather than her remarkable feats. In 1962, at a US Congressional hearing on women as spacefarers, a view was aired that women are “less susceptible to monotony, loneliness, heat, pain, and …

Closing the gender gap in science
5 years ago

Closing the gender gap in science

The Hindu  

India celebrates National Science Day on February 28 every year to mark C.V. Raman’s discovery of the scattering of light. For some time, this prejudice meant that women candidates were refused admission to the Indian Institute of Science in the 1930s, during Raman’s tenure as director. The cultural and gender norms that engendered discrimination even during a renaissance of sorts …

ISRO offers great career opportunities in space: Expert
5 years, 5 months ago

ISRO offers great career opportunities in space: Expert

India Today  

Young Indians need not venture abroad for jobs in the space domain, as state-run Indian Space Research Organsation offers great career opportunities in the new science frontier, an American expert said here on Friday. "Indian students can make a career in space and astronomy by getting into their space agency ISRO rather than looking elsewhere outside India, as it is …

A step in space to future success
5 years, 6 months ago

A step in space to future success

Deccan Chronicle  

KOCHI: Chandrayaan-II went agonisingly close to the moon’s surface before it suffered a setback but the expedition was a success in igniting the interest of the scientific community across the world. “The final margin by which India was able to land the probe on the moon is a testament to India’s space prowess,” said Ankit Shairaj Class XI student of …

ISRO emerges the star of the show
5 years, 6 months ago

ISRO emerges the star of the show

The Hindu  

Support and words of encouragement for the scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation poured in on Saturday as they lauded its efforts behind Chandrayaan-2. Congress president Sonia Gandhi said the ISRO had placed India among the world space powers and had inspired generations. Chandrayaan-2 has laid the foundation for achieving greater feats and the entire country awaits in anticipation …

Mission Mangal undermines hard work of ISRO's women scientists by oversimplifying science, focusing on personal lives
5 years, 6 months ago

Mission Mangal undermines hard work of ISRO's women scientists by oversimplifying science, focusing on personal lives

Firstpost  

Mission Mangal is like a well-made ad film which successfully uses every possible trope and well-tested stereotype in order to reach a larger audience. Its focus remains the domestic issues of its characters, who bond over solving complicated technical challenges using some sort of naive “scientific” jugaad Mission Mangal is a happy, feel-good movie. It’s like a well-made ad film …

Meet the women behind India's historic moon mission
5 years, 8 months ago

Meet the women behind India's historic moon mission

India TV News  

India’s second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2, will launch in the early hours on July 15 at 2:51 am. Both the Project Director and the Mission Director of India’s upcoming second moon mission Chandrayaan- 2 are women. Muthayya Vanitha who will be the first woman project director of ISRO is an electronics system engineer and also an expert data cruncher …

Chandrayaan-2 launch: Here's how women power is powering India's Rs 978 crore second moon mission
5 years, 8 months ago

Chandrayaan-2 launch: Here's how women power is powering India's Rs 978 crore second moon mission

India TV News  

A good measure of women's power is powering India's Rs 978 crore second moon mission, the Chandrayaan-2, with the Project Director and the Mission Director also being women. "Nearly 30 per cent of the members working on the Chandrayaan-2 mission will be women," K. Sivan, Chairman, Indian Space Research Organisation had told the media earlier. Initially Vanitha, who was responsible …

Women power in ISRO
5 years, 9 months ago

Women power in ISRO

The Hindu  

It is women power to the fore in India’s prestigious Chandrayaan-2 mission. While Vanitha M. will be the Project Director for the orbiter, the lander and the rover, Ritu Karidhal will be the Mission Director in charge of the GSLV-Mk III launch vehicle. The lander will have India’s national flag painted on it, and the rover will have the Ashok …

Chandrayaan-2 mission: Meet the rocket women who will again take India to the moon
5 years, 9 months ago

Chandrayaan-2 mission: Meet the rocket women who will again take India to the moon

India Today  

Breaking gender stereotypes, women in the last decade have taken up leadership roles in the STEM fields. AP The women scientists were celebrating the success of the Mars Orbiter Mission as their male colleagues looked on from the mission control room in ISRO, Bengaluru. After taking India to space with the journey embarking from Mangalyaan in 2013, limelight is now …

Women's Day 2019: Indian science is inching towards #BalanceForBetter despite the none-too-easy path
6 years ago

Women's Day 2019: Indian science is inching towards #BalanceForBetter despite the none-too-easy path

Firstpost  

In recent years, one of the more iconic images in Indian science are those of the women scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation’s mission control centre, cheering India’s successful injection of Mangalyaan spacecraft into the Mars orbit in 2014. “As many as 35 percent of the total Ph D awardees in science are women,” and yet, “the number of …

There is an inherent gender bias in India’s scientific community
6 years, 2 months ago

There is an inherent gender bias in India’s scientific community

Hindustan Times  

Never one to shy away from straight talking, textile minister Smriti Irani severely dampened the self-congratulatory mood at the Indian Science Congress by calling out the inherent gender bias in the scientific community that is denying opportunities and jobs to women. Addressing scientists, who work in fields that value rationality, objectivity and meritocracy, Ms Irani used data to put the …

Women in Science: Biochemist Sandhya Visweswariah’s gusto for research and affirmative action
6 years, 6 months ago

Women in Science: Biochemist Sandhya Visweswariah’s gusto for research and affirmative action

Firstpost  

Sandhya Visweswariah is internationally recognised as a world expert in gut disease. *** By Aashima Dogra Sandhya Visweswariah | Biochemist | Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru “In a higher administration in the country, there is still an old boys’ club. They don’t see us in their boys’ club,” said Sandhya Visweswariah, one of the few women on top in Indian …

Women in Science: Sandhya Vishweswariah talks about her research, the gender gap
6 years, 11 months ago

Women in Science: Sandhya Vishweswariah talks about her research, the gender gap

Firstpost  

Sandhya Vishweswariah says that not much can be done about the gender gap unless leadership at institutes insists on ensuring equal representation of women | #FirstCulture Editor’s note: Starting National Science Day 2018, The Life of Science and Firstpost bring you a series profiling Indian women in Science. *** By Aashima Dogra Sandhya Vishweswariah | 61 | Professor | Indian …

For more women in science
19 years, 2 months ago

For more women in science

The Hindu  

There is an overwhelming body of evidence to suggest that a strong gender bias pervades institutions of science in India. For example, as part of a recent international conference held by the Third World Organisation for Women in Science in Bangalore, entitled "Women's Impact on Science and Technology in the New Millennium", a special panel discussion on "Gender issues in …

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