Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University and a leading international authority on gender and science. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984. She is currently Director of EU/US Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project.
From 2004-2010, Schiebinger served as the Director of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. In 2010, Schiebinger presented the keynote address and wrote the conceptual background paper for the Nations' Expert Group Meeting on Gender, Science, and Technology. In 2013 she presented the Gendered Innovations project at the European Parliament. She is known for her writings on the impacts of feminism in the fields of science.
Her husband is Robert Proctor, and her children are Geoffrey Schiebinger and Jonathan Proctor.
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