IAEA launches programme to push for more women in nuclear

摘要

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched a new fellowship programme for up to 100 female graduate students per year to help close a persistent gender gap in the nuclear field. Named after twice Nobel Prize winner, the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme aims to increase the number of women working in nuclear science and technology. The initiative, by IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, was presented at an Agency event in Vienna to mark International Women's Day. Sklodowska-Curie's granddaughter, nuclear physicist Helene Langevin-Joliot, sent a video message in support of the initiative, and Argentine nuclear physicist and Latin American winner of the L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science Karen Hallberg attended the launch event.