Where Are the Women Nobel Laureates?
Female Scientists Need More Support To Make It To Stockholm
The mother of tweens was folding laundry at 5 a.m. before going to an early spinning class when the phone rang. It was early October 2009 and Carol Greider, a biologist at Johns Hopkins University, picked up and heard a voice from Stockholm. She had won that year’s Nobel Prize in medicine.
Despite Greider’s accomplishment—she earned the award for discovering telomerase, an enzyme of huge relevance in aging and cancer—it is this image of her making use of every waking minute that has stuck with me four years later. It is …
