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2. List of African-American women in STEM fields - Wikipedia

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   The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...

3. Hidden Figures - Wikipedia

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   Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...

4. Cynthia Chapple - Wikipedia

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   Chapple is the founder and director of Black Girls Do STEM (BGDS). Black Girls Do STEM was founded in 2018 in St. Louis, Missouri. Chapple's experience as a minority in her STEM classes and the workplace, led her to found BGDS while working on her masters in 2015. [1] In 2018, BDGS was officially starting up their first after-school classes.

5. K. Renee Horton - Wikipedia

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   She was the first black person to receive a PhD in material science and engineering with a concentration in physics at the University of Alabama. She is an advocate for black women in STEM fields and for disability rights.

6. List of organizations for women in science - Wikipedia

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   List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science; List of African-American women in STEM fields; List of inventions and discoveries by women; List of women's organizations; List of women in mathematics; Matilda effect; Occupational sexism; STEM pipeline; Structural inequality in education; Timeline of women in science

7. Getting more women into STEM jobs isn’t enough to fix the ...

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   Over time, women have shown up in STEM fields in larger numbers and gained greater footholds, but their overall strides and pay levels leave much to be desired (STEM fields remain two-thirds male).

8. African-American women in computer science - Wikipedia

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   Black women's undergraduate and graduate experiences in mathematics." Journal of Negro Education 81.4 (2012): 366–378. Charleston, LaVar J., et al. "Navigating underrepresented STEM spaces: Experiences of Black women in US computing science higher education programs who actualize success." Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 7#3 (2014 ...

9. Inspiring the next generation of females in STEM at ... - AOL

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   Women continue to be underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce. But giving women equal opportunities to pursue STEM careers will ensure a diverse and ...