There is a gender gap in choosing science, with girls more likely to opt for non-STEM streams after class 10 — an idea shaped partly by wrong perception of one’s ability, lack of women role models and biased classroom interactions of teachers
The one who believes in mentorship beyond research
Dr Nita Parekh juggles physics and computational biology with ease, and has been instrumental in building the MTech course in bioinformatics at the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad