Commentary
Lost in Space: Women Scientists in the Workforce
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If we are disproportionately losing mothers from science, what skill sets, talents, and ways of thinking are being lost from the workforce along with them?
Teen Voices
Camp Introduces Girls to AI, the Modern Day ‘Industrial Revolution’
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This camp aims to give girls leadership experiences in artificial intelligence, the next frontier for gender equality in STEM.
Technology
Not Enough Women in Tech? Here’s What Needs to Change
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Experts estimate there will be 1.4 million jobs available in computer science in the U.S. by 2020, but most women won’t benefit from these opportunities. Tech companies and the government can step up and change this.
Teen Voices
Girls Gravitate to Some STEM Classes, Avoid Others
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The focus on getting girls in STEM is working in life sciences, less so in math and engineering. “I really don’t enjoy math,” says one 17-year-old. “So I plan on pursuing a career in biology.”
United State of Women
Women’s Forum at White House Celebrates Power of Diversity
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Headliners and activists came together at an emotional time, two days after the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. “We know that our lives and our stories are intertwined and connected,” said a speaker at a vigil.
Teen Voices
Girls Decode Lonely Status in Computer Science Classes
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Girls studying robotics and C++ are used to being in a tiny minority. And for some, that’s not the friendliest feeling. “It’s like, ‘OMG, a girl is in our fort,'” says one girl, describing the attitude of male classmates.
Teen Voices
Hostile Atmosphere at Girl’s STEM School
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The stereotypes that often keep girls away from computer science, according to two recent University of Washington studies, didn’t stop SPARK writer Ajaita Saini from enrolling in a STEM-based high school. However, she wasn’t prepared for the ignorance of her male classmates and apathy of her peers.
computer science
Video: ‘Girls Who Code’ Talk About the Inspiration
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For one teen in this video it’s the chance to work on something to help Alzheimer’s disease. For another it’s the idea of making technology geared to girls and women. Reframing the male-dominated stereotypes is helping to fire them all up.
Computers and Technology
Look at What STEM Girls Can Do with Mobile Apps
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Girls’ interest in science, technology, math and engineering peaks in middle school and then gets squashed. We have a major opportunity to reverse this trend through the use of mobile technology.
Commentary
Egypt’s Feminist Union Undergoing Reincarnation
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The venerable Egyptian women’s rights advocacy, the Egyptian Feminist Union, is coming back to life amid a flowering of civil-society groups. But the road ahead isn’t clear for a long-dormant organization that operated under British colonial rule.