Angel Saini Indian - Punjabi : born in London in 1980
Holds two masters degree
Engineering from the university of Oxford
Achievements:
Worked as a reporter with BBC2009 : Named European science Journalist of the year by the Euroscience Foundation
2012 : Association of British Science Writers Award for best news
2015 : Won the American Association for the achievement of Science Gold Award
Author of two books
Geek Nation : How Indian Science Is Taking Over The World (Published 2011)Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
What are you ? The Mad Science Of Race - and Its Fatal Return ( Scheduled for 2019)
Sani discovers that many of society's traditional beliefs about women are built on shaky grounds
She writes " In the history of science we have to hunt for women and the story of women in science is a story of persistence
In her words
" Really , for me, writing this book has changed my life. I think of the world completely differently now. I'd read feminist literature throughout my life, but it was really the science that awakened the feminism in me because it made me see just what gross injustice had been done against women. For all intents and purposes, we have the same capabilities as men, intellectually and cognitively , and yet we've been held back for thousands of years"
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