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Female role models reduce the impact on women of stereotype threat, i.e., of being at risk of conforming to a negative stereotype about one’s social, gender, or racial group (Fine in Delusion of Gender. W.W. Norton & Co., NY, p. 36, 2010 [1]; Steele and Aronson in J Pers Soc Psychol 69:797–811, 1995 [2]). This can lead women scientists to underperform or to leave their scientific career because of negative stereotypes such as, not being as talented or as interested in science as men. Sadly, history rarely provides role models for women scientists; instead, it often renders these women invisible (CafeBabel Homepage [3]). In response to this situation, we present a selection of twelve outstanding women who helped to develop nuclear astrophysics.
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This work is supported by ChETEC Action (CA16117) which is supported by COST (www.cost.eu). COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. The work of PP was supported by RISP/IBS, funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning and the National Research Foundation of Korea (2013M7A1A1075764). The work of PGI was supported by the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS/CCCDI-UEFISCDI, project numbers PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2016-0339 and PN-III-P1-1-2-PCCDI-2017-0839 within PNCDI III.
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Hampton, C.V. et al. (2019). Women Scientists Who Made Nuclear Astrophysics. In: Formicola, A., Junker, M., Gialanella, L., Imbriani, G. (eds) Nuclei in the Cosmos XV. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 219. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13876-9_67
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