The good news: Many more women than ever before are completing Ph.D.’s in the sciences. Back in 2000, when I was appointed the first female dean of the graduate division at
How to Level the Playing Field for Women in Science
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Women’s Group: ‘Common Core Will Help Close STEM Gender Gap’
The American Association of University Women came out in support of the Common Core State Standards yesterday.
Energy companies aim to recruit more women amid industry boom
When Debbie Settoon landed her first job as a project engineer at a small New Orleans oil and gas drilling company in 1979 she quickly learned that if she wanted to get anywhere in her industry she needed to learn how to curse like a sailor. Or like an oil and gas man, for that […]
Their goal: find a million science and technology mentors for girls and young women
Women receive more than 60 percent of all undergraduate college degrees, but only 11 percent of computer science degrees. More>>
Keen On… Hacking Gender: How Women In Silicon Valley Can Become Jane Bond
Despite incremental improvements, the gender bias issue in Silicon Valley remains an important one. Last month, in
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Former NASA Astronaut Urges Educators to Make STEM ‘More Exciting’
Top executives from the pharmaceutical industry gathered in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to prescribe a remedy to “reinvigorate” America’s stagnating science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) sectors. Full Article>>
New GM CEO Hopes to Inspire Science Students
The incoming CEO of General Motors hopes her appointment as the first woman to lead a global automaker will inspire young women and men to pursue careers in science. Link>>
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Code.org Founder on the Real Reason There Aren’t More Women in Tech
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