Now everyone can have a turn ESA/NASA
The聽Hubble Space Telescope has a gender problem. For at least the past 16 years, female researchers have had聽their requests to use the world鈥檚 most important telescope accepted at聽significantly lower rates than their聽male colleagues. But a switch to聽reviewing anonymised proposals is聽changing that, showing that selection processes can be biased against women.
Every year, astronomers around the聽world respond to an open call for proposals for time using Hubble. There can be up to 1000 proposals, with only 10 to 20 per cent given the green…
