Washington today, we are holding this hearing virtually in compliance with the regulations for Remote Committee proceedings pursuant to House Resolution 965. Remote hearings certainly are not the same as sitting together in our Committee Room and you should know. The new authority has allowed us to continue to do our work a behalf of the American People, while keeping our staff, families and broader communities this is the First Official Virtual Committee hearing in the United States house of representatives. As we begin this historic proceeding, i want to underscore that i plan to continue this committees long tradition of collegia collegiality and substantive debate even as we conduct our business from afar. I will continue to work with Ranking Member and his staff to make sure that all Ranking Members are respected in the knew virtual format. Before we turn to todays important topic, i want to remind members of a few procedures to help us all navigate this new platform. First, consi
Career ladder. Our i know suckle set out to find out more about gender inequality in science. Have you ever wondered what this is or this. Since ive been pregnant ive come across a lot of weird stuff. This barbie scientist doll for example its supposed to help girls explore science and engineering. By constructing a spinning clothes rack and a pink washing machine. Is it really necessary to pink of science to get girls interested in stem why do women still make up less than 30 percent of scientists globally. I want to understand where the gender gap in science comes from there appear to be many reasons. You know the old you know what do you think it means you cant be. Really can you really. Talking to christina a common cliche crops up girls are just not naturally into science and tech. But a recent study showed that a lot of girls actually do love science at least at 1st but then their interest wanes. Why is that. Kristina things that has to do with how science is presented in society
Medications are often only tested on men. And women are also under represented in most fields of science. Why is that. This time we look at the gender gap welcome to tomorrow today your science show on d w. Science aspires to be universal but there are many ways in which social and cultural bias can creep in. Of 100 researchers and science and Technology Just 28 of the male and the numbers decline among the korea that. Our. Set out to find out more about gender inequality in science. Have you ever wondered what this is or this. Since ive been pregnant ive come across a lot of weird stuff. This barbie scientist doll for example its supposed to help girls explore science and engineering. By constructing a spinning clothes rack and a pink washing machine. Is it really necessary to pinker fi science to get girls interested in stem why do women still make up less than 30 percent of scientists globally. I want to understand where the gender gap in science comes from there appear to be many r
Senate it is my honor to welcome you here. We are going to have a conversation about the intersection of Early American History and contemporary political issues. If this is your first visit to the institute, i want to welcome you to our fullscale replica of the United States senate chamber. We arekennedy institute, committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. Partnerery proud to with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are proud together together a group of panelists for the Program Including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics in Higher Education at sincehere he has been 1988. Serving as a trusted source of tru
Tonight should be a humdinger. Im looking forward to it. To moderate, we have nothing less than a judge, seated in the center. Many of you know him. To the ninthted circuit november 2, 1985, and served as chief judge from 2007 to 2014, graduating from ucla ,nd from Ucla Law School receiving a jv in 1975 and prior to his appointment to the appellate bench, judge kaczynski served as chief judge of the United States claims court from 1982 to 1985 and special counsel to the merit Systems Protection Board and he retired from the bench in 2017 after 35 years of judicial service. [applause] judge kaczynski is married to Marcy Tiffany and has children and three grandchildren. We thank you for being here, judge kaczynski. Now, we mentioned ucla, so we must give usc equal time. [applause] we are really honored to have robert shrum, the chair in practical politics. [applause] and director of the usc door and site center for the political future. Professor shrum is director of the center and hes a