A quick web search for the world’s most famous scientists lists, among others, Galileo, Einstein, Newton, Darwin, Stephen Hawking and Alexander Fleming.
One of the few women to receive a mention is Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist who basically discovered radiation and helped apply it in the field of X-rays. More
National Women in Engineering Day – 23 June 2015 – a day dedicated to raising the profile and celebrating the achievements of women in engineering.
Check out the NWED website for all the latest information
The women who built ‘The Ladies’ Bridge’: Female workers who helped construct Waterloo Bridge during WWII are finally honoured 70 years on. Women played a key role in building Waterloo Bridge from 1937 to 1945. Its National Heritage List info updated to include role played by women. More
The life and work of Christina Broom, considered to be the UK’s first female press photographer, will be celebrated with a major exhibition.
The exhibition includes includes a cross section of her work, including Suffragette processions, First World War soldiers, official photographs of the Household Division and key London events, from the Lord Mayor’s Parade and royal coronations and funerals to historical pageants.
Women are banned from riding motorcycles in public in Iran, but Behnaz Shafiei is working hard to break the status quo. More
Paralympic swimming champion Jessica-Jane Applegate has qualified for an able-bodied event for the first time. More
Team SCA have become the first all-female crew in 25 years to win a leg of the round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race. More
A Norwegian player was sent off for calling an opponent “gay” as referees in the country toughen their approach to homophobic language. More
On 19 June it is World Sickle Cell Day and with that in mind we have chosen Floella Benjamin, a patron of the Sickle Cell Society, as our Inspirational Diversity Champion for this month.
Floella is an actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. Although she is particularly known as a presenter of children’s programmes such as Play School and Play Away, Floella has also appeared in pantomimes and radio programmes, written and appeared in several educational, religious and entertainment videos and been a narrator with a number of national orchestras.
Floella is also an author having written over 25 children’s books and written many articles for magazines including regular columns in ‘Parents’ and ‘TV Times’. In 1987 Floella set up her own television production company and since then she has produced hundreds of programmes, primarily for children.
Floella has sat on several boards and committees including, Ofcom Content Board, the Millennium Commission, the National Film & Television School and BAFTA.
In 2001 she was awarded the OBE ‘For Services to Broadcasting’ and in 2006, she was appointed as Chancellor of the University of Exeter.
In June 2010 Floella became a life peer with the title Baroness Benjamin of Beckenham in the County of Kent
To find out more about Floella and her work see her website at http://www.floellabenjamin.com/www.floellabenjamin.com or follow her on twitter at https://twitter.com/FloellaBenjamin