23 December 2020
by: Andrea Korte Jane Willenbring shares her story of harassment in science in the documentary Picture A Scientist. | Sharon Shattuck & Ian Cheney Jane Willenbring shares her story of harassment in science in the documentary Picture A Scientist. | Sharon Shattuck & Ian Cheney
A recent documentary shines a light on the discrimination and harassment faced by women in science – and affords the chance to explore just how much more work remains to make the scientific enterprise equitable, said participants in a Dec. 9 virtual panel organized by AAAS on the film “Picture a Scientist.”
“We can put data down on a piece of paper and we can look at statistics and we can show you graphs over time,” said Cyndi Atherton, director of science at the Heising-Simons Foundation, which provided principal funding for “Picture a Scientist.” The film cites a report on sexual harassment in STEM released in 2018 by the National Academies of Sciences,