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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. Picture a Scientist - Wikipedia

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   The movie tells the stories of several prominent female researchers, and brings to light the barriers they encountered, including cases of discrimination and harassment. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The movie features MIT 's professor of biology Nancy Hopkins , the chemist Raychelle Burks and the geoscientist Jane Willenbring , among other scientists.

4. 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 ...

5. Mary Jackson (engineer) - Wikipedia

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   Mary Jackson (née Winston; [1] April 9, 1921 – February 11, 2005) was an American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

6. 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).

7. 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 ...

8. WA only has two Women in STEM chapters. How to start one at ...

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9. 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