The group “500 Women Scientists” was created as a direct response to President Donald Trump and his administration’s war on science by a group of women scientists who connected the anti-science rhetoric with the deep misogynistic culture pervasive in their fields. But this initial concern has also grown to focus on the need to make science more inclusive and accountable to the ways in which science and scientists have been used to further entrench deep racial, class and gendered inequalities for people of color and Indigenous communities. Photo credit: NASA HQ
