https://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/ A blog from the Genetics Society of America Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:44:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/#comment-8064 Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:44:22 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=5736#comment-8064 I really needed this! My essays due tomorrow and this is last minute cleaning up, thanks!
ps: this stuff is a game changer, Stevens is an amazingly, wonderfull woman.

]]> https://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/#comment-6333 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:55:47 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=5736#comment-6333 […] knew that sex was specified by sex chromosomes; this had been established a few years earlier by his own student Nettie Stevens, and independently by his friend E.B. Wilson. Stevens had also shown that Drosophila females […]

]]> https://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/#comment-5680 Fri, 08 Jul 2016 08:32:52 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=5736#comment-5680 Great …pioneer…women scientist ! She will live in the minds of scientists for ever ! This should reach many women students in universities….to get good motivation !

]]> https://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/#comment-4430 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 15:02:45 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=5736#comment-4430 […] differences. Finding sex chromosomes & sexism. Fabulous bio of Nettie Stevens, by Cristy Gelling. Read of the […]

]]> https://genestogenomes.org/nettie-stevens-sex-chromosomes-and-sexism/#comment-4416 Fri, 08 Apr 2016 19:42:42 +0000 https://genestogenomes.org/?p=5736#comment-4416 […] Even if allies exist, they may not be sufficient in a system with a lot of in-built biases as this story about Dr. Nettie Stevens, a 19th-20th century Geneticist shows. Stevens had at least one supportive ally in Thomas Hunt Morgan– a rock star of genetics as we […]

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