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A lab of her own
Ten years and going strong, a major Weizmann Institute of Science initiative to advance the careers of women scientists in Israel is having a formidable impact, populating the ranks of Israeli academia with talented women and enriching a multitude of fields.
About 15 years ago, the dearth of women scientists in Israeli academia was becoming evident. While the ranks of women faculty in the U.S. were rising in comparison to men, in percentage terms, Israel was lagging behind. At some Israeli institutions, there were as few as one or two women for every 10 positions. The Weizmann Institute was no exception.
At Weizmann, it was a male faculty member who first brought the issue to the attention of his colleagues. "I have four daughters, and I started to think about their career paths, and then looked at the dismal numbers," says Prof. Yehiam Prior, then the Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry. Half of PhD graduates in the sciences were women—a ratio that has been consistent over time—but few were doing postdoctoral studies abroad, the unwritten prerequisite for attaining a faculty-track position in Israeli academia. As a result, few faculty positions were filled by women.
So Prof. Prior suggested to Institute leadership that they consider creating a special progra
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Andi Gutmans (Hebrew: אנדי גוטמנס) is an Israeli programmer and entrepreneur, born in Switzerland and currently residing in the United States. He helped to co-create PHP, and co-founded Zend Technologies and is a General Manager at Amazon Web Services. A graduate of the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Gutmans and fellow student Zeev Suraski created PHP 3 in 1997. In 1999 they wrote the Zend Engine, the core of PHP 4, and founded Zend Technologies, which has since overseen PHP advances, including the PHP 5 and most recent PHP 7 releases. The name Zend is a portmanteau of their forenames, Zeev and Andi.Gutmans served as CEO of Zend Technologies until October 2015 when Zend was acquired by Rogue Wave Software. Before being appointed CEO in February 2009, he led Zend's R&D including development of all Zend products and Zend's contributions to the open-source Zend Framework and PHP Development Tools projects. He has participated at Zend in its corporate financing and has also led alliances with vendors like Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle.Gutmans served on the board of the Eclipse Foundation (October 2005 - October 2008), is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation, and was nominated for the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software in 199