The Great Beyond: Where are astronomy's women?

The Great Beyond: Where are astronomy's women?: "Where are astronomy's women?�-�April 23, 2010

Posted for Zeeya Merali

The lack of women in astronomy (and physics) is being highlighted this week at the She is an Astronomer conference at the Royal Astronomical Society in London. The meeting was opened yesterday by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the first female president of the UK’s Institute of Physics."