--- title: How to Fix Gender Bias in the Sciences description: How to fix gender bias in the sciences, why identification is critical to ending poverty and more. canonical: https://time.com/4169310/fix-gender-bias-science/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-06T17:01:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:39.805Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Fix Gender Bias in the Sciences og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4169310/fix-gender-bias-science/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Fix Gender Bias in the Sciences twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Fix Gender Bias in the Sciences by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 6, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 6, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how we’ll fix gender bias in the sciences.**](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gender-equality-in-science-will-require-a-culture-shift/) By Claire Pomeroy in Scientific American **2\.** [**To end poverty, we need to get everyone — especially women and children — some identification.**](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mahmoud-mohieldin/finding-the-missing-milli%5Fb%5F8743828.html) By Mahmoud Mohieldin and Mariana Dahan in the World Post **3\.** [**The Internet can learn a lot from TV about teaching the world.**](https://medium.com/the-development-set/when-television-is-more-than-an-idiot-box-a92ddc9e5d80#.6ekboyiay) By Charles Kenny in the Development Set **4\.** [**You can’t trust what you read about nutrition.**](http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/you-cant-trust-what-you-read-about-nutrition/) By Christie Aschwanden in FiveThirtyEight **5\.** [**These super-efficient streetlights are tricking mosquitoes and fighting dengue fever.**](http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/02/street-lamps-dengue-fever-mosquitoes-malaysia) By Carla Kweifio-Okai in the Guardian  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4169310/fix-gender-bias-science/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4169310/fix-gender-bias-science/"},"headline":"How to Fix Gender Bias in the Sciences","datePublished":"2016-01-06T17:01:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:39.805Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4169310/fix-gender-bias-science/","keywords":["Innovation","gender","diet","Education","poverty","mosquito"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4169310/fix-gender-bias-science/","name":"How to Fix Gender Bias in the Sciences"}}]}] ```