Dr. Jennifer Doudna of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute chatted with HuffPost Live while at Davos on Wednesday about how important it is for women to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.
“I think that for a lot of women there’s a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields,” Dounda said.
Doudna, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, has done award-winning work on controlling the information content of cells. She was inspired by women, and she hopes other women will find role models in the STEM fields to encourage them to pursue their “curiosities.”
“Women have natural curiosities, as do men, and we just want to show women they can pursue these fields and they can be feminine, they can be mothers, they can be wives, they really can do all those things and do it on their own terms,” Doudna said.
Below, more updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
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Brian Gallagher, president and CEO of United Way, stopped by HuffPost Live at Davos Wednesday
“There is no doubt that we… have never been more interconnected as a world,” Gallagher said.
Gallagher said though that the world “feels more out of control” to people today.
“Because we’re interconnected doesn’t mean we’re in control,” he added.
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BSA President Victoria Espinel talks about how technology is impacting government, transparency and trade.
Nicholas Dirks, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, joins HuffPost Live at the 2015 World Economic Forum in Davos.
“You can’t fight a war against 1.6 million [Muslim] people. You have to find a way to find the true radicals,” Zakaria said.
“I think that the danger is, how do you explain to the American people that yes, the United States is the world’s great super power, but there are some problems we cannot solve?” Zakaria asked, speaking on the U.S.’s approach in Syria.
“That’s a very tough thing,” he said.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria joined HuffPost Live Wednesday, weighing in on U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address.
“Obama’s foreign policy has been very consciously modeled after one president… it’s Eisenhower,” Zakaria said.
Zakaria said you could see a “sense of discipline” in Obama’s speech on Tuesday.
