A TedX talk by Jessica Wade on diversity in science. Only 17% of the English-language biographies on Wikipedia are about women – but the statistic won’t stay that low for long if Dr Jess Wade has her way. A passionate advocate for diversity in science, Jess balances her work as an award-winning physicist at Imperial College London with her role as a ‘Wikipedian’, creating and uploading the biographies of scientists who are women, people of colour and part of the LGBTQI+ community - ones for each day of 2018. In conversation with journalist Anjana Ahuja, Jess explains why the only way to create more diversity in science is for people in positions of power to lend their active support.
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