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Astronomy Cast Episode 399, Women in Science.

What can astronomy cast or weekly facts based journey through the cosmos? We'll help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the director of Cosmicquest.

Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing okay, how are you doing?

I'm good, I know you've had a pretty crazy week, which we're going to get into a little bit on this week's episode.

So we're going to be handling a fairly difficult topic this week, so I think we want to give everyone an appropriate trigger warning.

We're going to be talking about abuse, we're going to be talking about harassment, perhaps sex a little bit.

So just if you're going to be, if you normally listen to astronomy cast with kids in the room, this is something you might want to listen to first, and decide if it's sort of at the appropriate level for your family.

The second thing though is that next episode next week is going to be our 400th episode, and that is going to be, we're going to call it the state of the universe, and we're going to update you on all of the stories that have been sort of changing since we started doing astronomy cast.

So if this week's episode sounds a little heavy to you and then go straight to 400 and it's going to be a lot of fun, but as I said, this is a very serious topic and we're going to take it on.

Are you ready to go Pamela?

Yes.

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So science is typically a male-dominated profession, mostly dudes, not a lot of ladies. From researchers to professors to lawmakers, women have a tough time gaining traction in such a heavily jittered field.

Today, we're going to talk about what it takes to make it as a woman in science, what additional hurdles you'll have to overcome, and what resources are available if you're being harassed or discriminated against.

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