How Can We Close the Gender Gap Within STEM?
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The gender imbalance in STEM fields goes beyond women in these industries: It’s bad for women across our society. And if it’s bad for women, then it’s bad for society as a whole.
Equal Pay
Tech Women in India’s Startup Boom Reach Out
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Neeru Sharma says it took passion and conviction to start her online retail outlet. That’s a message more women in India’s male-dominated and high-powered startup environment need to hear.
Arts & Culture
Tweeters Celebrate Swift, Steep Tumble of Tim Hunt
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Science watchers on Twitter are overjoyed. In the span of just a few days–far less time than it took Larry Summers to leave Harvard–a Nobel laureate resigned over comments about “the trouble with girls in science.”
Education
Female Teens Ready for Rocket Launch Competition
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Only five of the 100 national teen teams competing at Saturday’s Team America Rocketry Challenge are all-female. One contestant said that doesn’t faze her–male competitors stopped intimidating her in grade school.
Health & Science
Women Love Language, So Why Not Computer Code?
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Girls and women out-perform in languages, so they should feel confident about tackling the boom language of the digital age. Is this pep talk needed? Yes, if you consider the sharp drop-off of women in computer science since 1985.
Arts & Culture
Women’s Studies Should Include High-Tech Mastery
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Integrating media technology in the classroom can help boost women’s participation in Internet culture, says Sharon Collingwood in the book of essays “Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition.” In this excerpt she spotlights female bloggers.
Arts & Culture
Female ‘Stereotype Threat’ Brain Drains U.S. STEM
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Negative perceptions are still choking off women’s access to careers in science, technology, engineering and math. But if girls are encouraged in the early grades they will benefit, along with the U.S. economy.
Arts & Culture
Women Were First Computer Programmers
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In this excerpt from “The Computer Boys Take Over,” historian Nathan Ensmenger explains that the first computer programmers were women because managers expected programming to be low-skill clerical work. They were wrong: The job required skill and ingenuity and these women persevered.
Health & Science
Study Takes Mystery Out of Hiring Tech Women
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Practical advice on hiring women to the high-paying jobs in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) is offered in a 50-page study released today by the Anita Borg Institute. Women are 24 percent of the STEM work force.
Health & Science
Female Engineers Put Buzz into GM’s Volt
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Female automotive engineers recently talked about the nationwide launch this summer of the Chevrolet Volt, the first mass-produced electric car by General Motors. The event was designed to focus on women’s interest in engineering.