The Gender Gap
Gender that has historically experienced discrimination in STEM-related fields.
What is female?
The college where Bell Burnell received her Ph.D. in radio astronomy.
What is Cambridge University?
Cannon suffered from this throughout her entire career, largely due to the absence of hearing aids.
What is deafness?
The most important tool for women's empowerment.
What is education?
The full name of the TA for AST-09.
What is Max Kurzner?
Recent trends show that the gender disparity is ________.
What is decreasing?
Bell Burnell served as the president of this organization for two years.
What is the Royal Astronomical Society?
Cannon was elected an honorary member of this organization, being that women could not become regular members.
What is the Royal Astronomical Society?
Participation in special programs, such as the Center for Talented Youth, and exposing young girls to STEM are means to this.
The title and artist of the lecture theme song.
What is Woman by Kesha?
The percent of astronomy doctorates that are women.
What is twenty-five percent?
Bell Burnell provided the first direct evidence for this astronomical concept.
What are rapidly spinning neutron stars?
Cannon is credited with the creation of this classification system.
What is the Harvard Classification Scheme?
The Big Sister Association of Greater Boston is an example of this.
What is a mentoring program?
The "mother" of the Hubble Telescope.
Who is Nancy Roman?
The percent of astronomy professors that are women.
What is five percent?
Bell Burnell's discovery of these celestial objects was recognized by the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics, but she wasn't a recipient.
What are pulsars?
What is the American Astronomical Society?
The percent of the nation's STEM jobs that are held by women.
What is twenty-four percent?
The building where class is held.
What is Cabot Intercultural Center?
Two ways that women are disadvantaged in STEM-related fields.
What are educational opportunities and discredit? (Answers may vary)
According to Bell Burnell, this was the traditional "image" of science.
What is a "senior man"?
Cannon classified stars based on these two characteristics.
What is temperature and spectral type?
Established in 2008, this center on the Tufts campus works to foster an inclusive science and engineering learning environment.
What is the center for STEM Diversity?
The woman that discovered variable stars have a consistent brightness.
Who is Henrietta Swan Leavitt?