Back in the mid-1980s, Jeanine Swatton was in an all-girl band in Boston, belting out top-40 hits — just like the then-popular band The Go-Gos.
The all-female band from the 1980s was iconic for making noise in the predominately male music industry. Years later, Swatton is trying to do the same with an all-female engineering team at her software start-up
Come January, an industry traditionally dominated by male executives will look quite a bit different. Linda Hudson will still be leading the Arlington-based U.S. unit of BAE Systems, and she’ll be joined in the top
Posted in: Contracting, Defense, STEM, Women
With the abrupt departure of top Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky, Julie Larson-Green and Tami Reller are running the Windows division. Larson-Green will run the engineering part of Windows, while Tami Reller will oversee its business operations. The Windows division does $18 billion a year in revenues; it’s also viewed as Microsoft’s flagship product, and the basis of its technology franchise.
As a child, Deborah Jin remembers going to company holiday parties where most of the attendees were men and they assumed she must be there because of her physicist father. But they were mistaken. She was there because of her physicist mother.
Our bibliography is chock-full of resources you can share with your students or use yourself! This downloadable bibliography has hundreds of entries divided into five main categories such as Engaging women and girls in STEM education. We designed this updated version of the bibliography to be as easy-to-use as possible, so you can spend more time working with students and less time searching the internet for the resources and tools you know are out there to help you recruit and retain female students.
Despite efforts to recruit and retain more women, a stark gender
disparity persists within academic science. Abundant research has
demonstrated gender bias in many demographic groups, but has
yet to experimentally investigate whether science faculty exhibit
a bias against female students that could contribute to the gender
disparity in academic science.
Posted in: Discrimination, STEM, Women
According to 2011 findings by the Economics & Statistics Administration, less than 25% of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) jobs are held by women — even though they make up more than half the workforce and college degrees. An undeniable glass ceiling hovers over these industries, and women and men alike do their best to start lugging stones at it. While plenty of progress has been made over the past few decades, more efforts need undertaking to ensure a more equitable place for females in these traditionally male-dominated industries. A goal the following essentials share …
Please join us via WebEx for the National STEM RESULTS Town Hall on Tuesday, October 2, 2012 from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. ET. The STEM RESULTS Town Hall will feature representatives from 14 major STEM Education, Diversity, Youth Women’s & Girls, and Professional Societies who will discuss their participation in the STEMconnector® / ASTRA STEM Results Project that I described to you several weeks ago. Please register ASAP by visiting the registration page, containing program and scheduling details.
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