NASA launches website to draw female interest.
NASA has built a website to boost women's and girls' familiarity with the agency, raise their interest in working there and increase recognition of female contributions to aeronautics. The site, http://women.nasa.gov, was launched on 16 March and gives glimpses into the work lives and accomplishments of female astronauts, researchers and engineers through videos and essays. A careers page provides links to job openings, including graduate and postdoc fellowships. A NASA spokeswoman says that the agency is trying to change the perception that it is male-dominated.
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Agency woos women. Nature 471, 539 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nj7339-539d
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