7 trailblazing women to celebrate this International Day of Women and Girls in Science

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Let's start with the numbers. 

Around the world today, only 30 percent of researchers — and just 35 percent of students in STEM related fields — are women, according to the United Nations. 

And yet, despite the barriers that women in science continue to face, they have revolutionized our world, conducting pioneering research and forging innovation the world over, from Katherine Johnson, whose calculations helped to put man on the moon, to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, who discovered HIV. 

Today marks 2020's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, an apt time to honor the contributions of women in science — and to make sure that there are even more of them in the future.  Read more...

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