Women in Chemistry in Australia: From a Slow Start to a More Promising Future
Margaret M. SheilAustralian Research Council, 11 Lancaster Place, Majura Park, ACT 2609, and University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Gwynneville, NSW 2522, Australia. Email: margaret.sheil@arc.gov.au
Margaret is currently CEO of the Australian Research Council, having been appointed in August 2007. Margaret is a member of the Cooperative Research Centres Committee, the Prime Minister's Science Innovation and Engineering Council and the National Research Infrastructure Council. She is also a member of the Board of the Australia–India Council, the Advisory Council of the Science Industry Endowment Fund and the National Research Foundation of Korea. |
Australian Journal of Chemistry 64(6) 661-663 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH11182
Published: 27 June 2011
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[5] In 2000, the author was promoted to professor at the University of Wollongong and Sue Berners-Price was appointed to a chair at the University of Western Australia becoming the first two female professors of chemistry in Australia.
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[13] The list of medal and award winners on the RACI website does not include gender so my search relied on those I could identify.
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