This Is What the Next Generation of Engineers Looks Like
In college and during her career, Kimberly Bryant often found herself the only black female scientist in the room. The biotech engineer founded the Bay Area non-profit Black Girls CODE in 2011 so that...
View ArticleCode.org Founder on the Real Reason There Aren’t More Women in Tech
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View ArticleWomen’s Group: ‘Common Core Will Help Close STEM Gender Gap’
The American Association of University Women came out in support of the Common Core State Standards yesterday. And while education groups have been announcing their common-core allegiances left and...
View ArticleU.S. Naval Academy workshops for girls in middle school build interest in...
Twelve middle-school girls hovering around a lab table at the U.S. Naval Academy on Saturday had just begun testing the artificial heart valves they’d built out of rubber tubing and a piece of latex...
View ArticleSupporting Our Girls: The Key to Closing the Gender Gap in STEM Education
The American economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of all its people, yet women are being left behind in the critical fields of science, technology, engineering, and...
View ArticleWhy is STEM Still a Four-Letter Word for Women?
In the last few decades, women have made immense strides in both educational and occupational success, garnering higher degrees, wages and visibility in the workforce. Today, according to the National...
View ArticleHigh Paying Careers & Degrees for Women in S.T.E.M.
S.T.E.M. careers, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, are among the highest-paying positions in any field. Most positions in these fields are currently held by men, but that’s...
View ArticleThe Women Who STEM-ed Their Way to Power
One of my favorite days of the year at Fortune is MPW day, the day the list of Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women in business comes out. It’s a great celebration of women in power, of women in business...
View ArticleTwo High School Girls Prove that Girls Can Code
The Webby Awards, aka the “Oscars of the Internet,” were announced on Monday. Winners include two New York City teenage girls who created the video game “Tampon Run“. An article in the International...
View ArticleSTEM: More Than Just A Career, It’s Fun Too
Competition is fierce, as 42 high school girls make-up the Bronx High School Robotics team, The Fe Maidens (pronounced “Iron Maidens”) and compete to win. These girls have discovered that they can get...
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