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In developing countries, women often suffer slow career progression, or even complete exclusion from scientific and technological activities. What policies and practices are being put in place to redress the balance?
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Opinions and Analysis
Risk-averse researchers put mothers' lives at risk
Researchers are putting women's lives at risk by being too cautious about trialling drugs during pregnancy, say Nicholas J. White and colleagues.
Wanted: Imaginative Indian climate scientists
To meet the challenge of climate change, Indian scientists need more imagination and vigour, and to stop playing safe, says Sunita Narain.
Striving for a truly democratic science
10 October 2003
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News and Features
Q&A: Closing the gender gap
Prudence Mutowo, winner of a 2006 L'Oreal UNESCO fellowship, speaks to SciDev.Net about her experiences as a woman in science.
30 April 2008
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Arab leaders approve ten-year higher education strategy
Member states of the Arab League have approved a ten-year strategy aiming to boost higher education and scientific research.
4 April 2008
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South Asia News in brief: 1–15 March 2008
20 March 2008
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