Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine, spoke to reporters about their call for gender balance in science.
“The career structure is very much a career structure that has worked for men,” Blackburn told The Associated Press at the sidelines of a press conference in Stockholm.
“But many women, at the stage when they have done their training really want to think about family . . . and they just are very daunted by the career structure. Not by the science, in which they are doing really well.”
Both women agreed that flexibility in the career structure and measures to get more women in decision-making positions would introduce balance.
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