Picture a Scientist (2020)
The Fight for Gender Equity in Science
Women make up less than a quarter of STEM professionals in the United States, and numbers are even lower for women of color. But there is a growing group of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists, exposing longstanding discrimination, and leading the way in making science more inclusive.
- Date of release
- 2020-11-11
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Ian Cheney, Sharon Shattuck
Casting
- Mahzarin Banaji — Self
- Raychelle Burks — Self
- Nancy Hopkins — Self
- Jane Willenbring — Self
- Kathryn Clancy — Self
- Paula Johnson — Self
- Adam Lewis — Self
- Corinne Moss-Racusin — Self
- Kuheli Dutt — Self
- Sangeeta Bhatia — Self
- Sylvia Ceyer — Self
- Penny Chisholm — Self
Interesting facts
Picture a Scientist is a 2020 documentary highlighting gender inequality in science. The movie tells the stories of several prominent female researchers, and brings to light the barriers they encountered, including cases of discrimination and harassment. The movie features MIT's professor of biology Nancy Hopkins, the chemist Raychelle Burks and the geoscientist Jane Willenbring, among other scientists.
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