Women are finally getting equal access to the Hubble Space Telescope - New Scientist

Now everyone can have a turn

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By Leah Crane

The Hubble Space Telescope has a gender problem. For at least the past 16 years, female researchers have had their requests to use the world’s most important telescope accepted at significantly lower rates than their male colleagues. But a switch to reviewing anonymised proposals is changing that, showing that selection processes can be biased against women.

Every year, astronomers around the world respond to an open call for proposals for time using Hubble. There can be up to 1000 proposals, with only 10 to 20 per cent …

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