Battling sexism in life sciences

We have perhaps never appreciated the value of science, particularly the life sciences, so much. While the global COVID-19 vaccine rollout remains beset by inequalities, the fact that we have multiple World Health Organization-approved vaccines for the disease, just a year-and-a-half after the SARS-CoV-2 virus’ genome was first sequenced, is a monumental achievement. That the genome was made publicly available in January 2020, mere weeks after the outbreak was first discovered, is something of a landmark itself.