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The new Spring issue of AWIS Magazine features women scientists from a variety of backgrounds and industries who are opening doors for others in STEM. Discover inspiring stories, career advice, and more. GET THE NEW ISSUE
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Meet four leaders who are developing cutting-edge agriculture solutions while inspiring the next generation of women scientists. Learn how they're each making an impact and exemplifying that innovation and inclusion go hand in hand.
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Bloomberg
There’s a myth about the tech industry's lack of diversity: that it just reflects who studies computer science. But the pipeline is only part of the problem. The other part is company culture, which drives out many of the women and people of color who’d like to make tech their career. Over half of midcareer women leave the industry, while early-career women leave at twice the rate of men. According to my research, there’s a simple way to make company culture less toxic: Stop asking women, particularly women of color, do work for which they aren’t paid and which ultimately hurts their careers.
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The White House
On his first day in office, President Biden signed Executive Order 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. That historic Executive Order directed the whole of the federal government to advance an ambitious equity and racial justice agenda. Today, more than 90 federal agencies, including all Cabinet-level agencies, are releasing the first-ever Equity Action Plans that lay out more than 300 concrete strategies and commitments to address the systemic barriers in our nation’s policies and programs that hold too many underserved communities back from prosperity, dignity, and equality.
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Penn State News
Penn State will honor scientist and advocate Shirley M. Malcom, whose pioneering work has helped open doors for women of color in the sciences, by naming a building at Innovation Park in her honor on April 8, 2022. The 329 Building at Innovation Park will be renamed “The Shirley M. Malcom Building” in honor of Malcom, who earned her doctorate in ecology from Penn State in 1974.
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Scientific American
The first modern-style code ever executed on a computer was written in the 1940s by a woman named Klára Dán von Neumann — or Klári to her family and friends. And the historic program she wrote was used to develop thermonuclear weapons. In this season, we peer into a fascinating moment in the postwar U.S. through the prism of Dán von Neumann’s work. We explore the evolution of early computers, the vital role women played in early programming, and the inextricable connection between computing and war.
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.WOMEN in TECH
Fast Company
Asians are not underrepresented in tech, and some diversity initiatives don’t include them. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t still massive barriers to overcome. In our new report on women of color in tech, we found that Asian women reported worse outcomes than white women, often by a wide margin. In fact, Asian women’s experience was far closer to that of other women of color than to that of white women.
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GreenBiz
Voyager Ventures announced a $100 million fund focused on early-stage climate tech companies. The size alone is impressive for an inaugural fund, and its backing includes many big names in tech and investing. In a quickly saturating climate investing field, what is equally notable about the San Francisco-based fund is the expert knowledge that managing partners Sierra Peterson and Sarah Sclarsic bring from founding and funding climate tech companies to the climate policy space.
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It takes special effort for researchers to maintain a healthy equilibrium between their work and personal lives. This challenge can look very different, depending on where one works and what stage of career they are in. ACS Publications hosted a webinar on work-life balance in the lab, as part of the Changing the Culture of Chemistry series.
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The New Stack
For IT departments seeking to recruit more women engineers — or to simply retain the ones they already have — the warning is clear: Eighty-two percent of women working in the field are dissatisfied with their current salary, according to a new survey. In fact, pay significantly outpaces concerns related to the role work plays in their lives, according to the survey released by Women Who Code, a global community of women technologists. Survey participants were asked what was most important to them at work.
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.WOMEN and HIGHER EDUCATION
Diverse Issues in Higher Eduation
The State of Student Debt Summit, which was convened by the Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) examined the current state of student debt. Central to the discussions is that Black students, most specifically Black female students, are disproportionately impacted by student loan debt.
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Inside Higher Education
The gaps remain stark: first-year students of color and learners from low-income backgrounds wash out of entry-level “gateway” courses at significantly higher rates than their white peers. Those early setbacks contribute significantly to the higher dropout rates that Black, Latino, Indigenous and Pell Grant–eligible students experience between their first and second year of college, and they ultimately are a factor in the persistently lower graduation rates for students from these groups.
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Inside Higher Education
Female students outnumber their male counterparts on college campuses — a statistic that has held strong for years — but leadership ranks are often heavily stocked with men. The Community College of Denver, however, is an exception, with an all-female executive leadership team. President Marielena DeSanctis, who joined the college in January 2021, says she inherited a largely female executive team, and as the team saw turnover, she filled the empty positions with women.
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MSNBC
Candace Doby, author of the new book “A Cool Girl’s Guide to Courage” lays out a roadmap for young women who often feel overwhelmed when it comes to making important life decisions, like choosing a college or navigating a first job.
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Forbes
March was Women's History Month. While a special month is a great way to shine the light on women in STEM, we must explore every day of the year how we can open more doors in fields where women have historically been underrepresented.
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Martine Roussel, Ph.D., of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, has been awarded the 2022 American Association in Cancer Research (AACR) Women in Cancer Research Charlotte Friend Lectureship. Roussel is a member of the St. Jude Department of Tumor Cell Biology and holds the Endowed Chair in Molecular Carcinogenesis. She is being recognized for her pivotal contributions to understanding pediatric brain tumors, particularly medulloblastoma. Her work includes landmark discoveries in molecular oncology, cell cycle control and translational development of treatment strategies for medulloblastoma, the most common malignant childhood brain tumor.
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Fortune
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on women’s employment in the United States while the United Nations estimates that 47 million women and girls have been pushed into poverty due to the pandemic. If current trends continue, the World Economic Forum forecast that it will take nearly three centuries to close the resulting economic gender gap, even though the world’s educational gender gap looks set to be almost completely diminished within 13 years.
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Ms. Magazine
Growing up in a rural community, Tina Hernandez-Boussard never thought she would go on to earn a Ph.D., much less be at the forefront of a new field intent on solving the inequities of our healthcare system through data science. However, with the support of a mentor who recognized her potential and encouraged her pursuits, Dr. Hernandez-Boussard — now a professor of medicine and biomedical data science at Stanford University— leads efforts utilizing data in medicine to better serve people from all demographics, not only those who have traditionally been the focus of biomedical research.
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