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Images of women in STEM edit-a-thon @ Art.Science.Gallery. / Austin, TX In conjunction with "Go Ahead and Do It," an art exhibit featuring portraits of women in the STEM disciplines, the Art.Science.Gallery. in Austin, Texas is hosting an Ada Lovelace Day-themed edit-a-thon on October 13, 2014.
The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
Women in STEM may leave due to not being invited to professional meetings, the use of sexually discriminating standards against women, inflexible working conditions, the perceived need to hide pregnancies, and the struggle to balance family and work. Women in STEM fields that have children either need child care or to take a long leave of absence.
Girls' learning outcomes in STEM can also be compromised by psychological factors such as mathematics or test anxiety. [1] [4] [6] [9] The confidence of a female teacher in STEM subjects also has a strong impact on how well female students will perform in those subjects in the elementary school classroom.
Sassler and Meyerhofer studied women’s earning rates against men in computer science jobs between 2009 and 2019, and found that those women made about 86.6 cents on the men’s dollar.
Representing the 7.4 million women working in STEM, AWIS members are professionals and students in a variety of STEM fields. Over 50% of AWIS members have doctorates in their respective fields. [10] AWIS has 49 chapters in the United States, which support local networking and mentorship, as well as outreach to young women considering careers in ...
As the name of the blog suggests, the women featured on the blog are generally old enough to be grandmothers, although not all of them had children. [2] Although many famous researchers are included, the blog posts also feature women who worked at lower-level teaching and laboratory assistant positions in STEM. [6]
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