El club inglés Manchester United anunció el fichaje del internacional holandés Dominik Janssen de forma gratuita. Janssen, de 29 años, llega al club con un contrato de tres años con la opción de una extensión adicional de 12 meses después de que expire su contrato con el Wolfsburgo. “Estoy muy feliz de estar en un … Read more
El Reading FC confirmó este domingo que se retira de la Liga de Primera División Femenina para la próxima temporada 2024-2025 por problemas económicos. Un intento tardío para hacerse cargo de la rama femenina del club en dificultades financieras fracasó durante el fin de semana. Las semifinales de la Copa FA 2019 se disputarán ahora … Read more
Mark Skinner reiteró su deseo de permanecer como entrenador del Manchester United Femenino después de llevar a su equipo a su primer gran trofeo el domingo. Copa FA Victoria final. El United venció al Tottenham Hotspur por 4-0 en Wembley para conseguir su primer título desde el restablecimiento del equipo femenino en 2018, pero Skinner … Read more
Did you know Mexico established an all-female police force decades ago? Well, now you do, thanks to the first look Apple dropped Friday for the Women in Blue crime series (aka Las Azules). The new Spanish-language, 10-part drama is set in 1970 against the backdrop of a serial killer’s spree. Created by International Emmy Award … Read more
Las Borinqueñas explores how women sought control of their reproductive lives in the 1950s.Credit: Valerie Terranova Las Borinqueñas Directed by Rebecca Aparicio Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City 3 April – 5 May 2024 It’s the 1950s and two US scientists are looking for somewhere to test the first birth-control pill. Where better than Puerto … Read more
In Unrooted, botanist Erin Zimmerman shares her struggle to balance research and family.Credit: Kenneth Wurdack Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save An Old Science Erin Zimmerman Melville House (2024) Nineteenth-century English suffragist Lydia Ernestine Becker, a lifelong advocate for women’s right to vote, was also an accomplished botanist who discovered a peculiar hermaphrodite … Read more
The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus Troy Tassier Johns Hopkins Univ. Press (2024) An adage in epidemiology states that, if you’ve seen one epidemic, you’ve seen one epidemic. However, argues economist Troy Tassier in his thoughtful history, in almost every epidemic, the rich escape and survive while the poor stay and suffer. … Read more
Women and early-career researchers: Nature wants to publish your research.Credit: Getty Researchers submitting original research to Nature over the past year will have noticed an extra question, asking them to self-report their gender. Today, as part of our commitment to helping to make science more equitable, we are publishing in this editorial a preliminary analysis … Read more
Landmark study contradicts misinformation about brain development and conditions like autism in children. The COVID vaccine is safe to administer during pregnancy, reports UC San Francisco in an important finding on the safety of the vaccine in infants — despite widespread fear and misinformation. The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, is the first scientific inquiry … Read more
As an academic who studies social policy and race, I was not surprised to learn of the resignation of Claudine Gay, former president of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was the first Black woman to have the role. I was not shocked by the news that Antoinette Candia-Bailey, an administrator at Lincoln University of … Read more