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Ada Lovelace is often described as being the world’s first...
Mathematician
Economist
Computer programmer
Engineer
Which video encouraging girls to go into science went viral for all the wrong reasons after it featured sexist cliches including high heels and lipsticks?
A promotional video for science courses at Oxford University
A department for education video for teenage girls
A European Commission video for their campaign “Science: it’s a girl thing!”
A video by the University of California promoting a science summer school
This year the Royal Society awarded 43 University Research Fellowships (URFs), but how many went to women?
2
7
13
20
Who were the Edinburgh Seven?
The first group of women students to study medicine at a British university
The first group of women students to be awarded degrees
A group of male students who argued that women should be granted entrance to Edinburgh university
A group of male students suspended for rioting in response to news that women were to be allowed in their university
Women make up 46% of the UK’s workforce, but what percentage of women work in Stem?
12%
15.5%
27%
52.2%
Which female scientist, credited with the development of protein crystallography and establishing the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin, was awarded a Nobel prize in 1964? The news was reported by the Daily Mail under the headline: “Oxford housewife wins Nobel"
Barbara McClintock
Alice Ball
Fiona Wood
Dorothy Hodgkin
Girls now out-perform boys in GCSEs and A-levels, and there are more women graduating from university than men, but what percentage of engineering and technology undergraduates are women?
12%
21%
34%
7%
Which famous physician is this?
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Marie Curie
Maria Petraccini
Rosalind Franklin
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