Picture a Scientist

[Opens June 12 in Virtual Cinema sponsored by MSP Film Society; for more information, log on to mspfilm.org.] An insightful, informative, inspirational, poignant, candid, 97-minute documentary that chronicles the blatant and systemic discrimination of women in science and focuses on the experiences of three scientists, including geomorphologist and Scripps Institution of Oceanography geology professor Dr. Jane Willenbring who felt she was "treated like trash" by some colleagues, retired molecular biologist and MIT biology professor Dr. Nancy Hopkins, and American University analytical chemistry professor Dr. Raychelle Burks, who became activists to stop discrimination after they struggled to overcome roadblocks in order to advance their careers in a pervasive negative environment where the "playbook was written by men" and sexual harassment was rampant and consists of eye-opening commentary by biological anthropologist Kathryn Clancy, Wellesley College President Paula Johnson, geologist Marcia McNutt, chemist Sylvia Ceyer, cognitive scientist Molly Potter, oceanographer Paola Rizzoli, ecologist Penny Chisholm, biologists Ruth Lehmann and Leigh Royden, biological engineer Sangeeta Bhatia, and investigative reporter Azeen Ghorayshi.
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