In October, 2015, Buzzfeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi broke an investigative story detailing astronomer Geoffrey Marcy's long history of sexual harassment. Since then, more female scientists have come forward about their experiences with harassment. Ghorayshi, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard, and Harvard history of science professor Evelynn M Hammonds join science journalist and Communications Forum coordinator Christina Couch to discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to overcome them. Co-sponsored with the Communications Forum.

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