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In honor of Giving Tuesday, we are shining a spotlight on some of our most inspirational members and aiming to raise $20,000 to support women in science. All donations made between now and November 30 will be doubled (up to $12,000 total).
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Do you know about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American to earn a medical degree? For National Native American Heritage Month, read about her and more barrier-breaking Native women in our online database of historical figures in STEM.
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.HOT HEADLINES
Ms. Magazine
The release of the first-ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality Strategy marked a historic day in the U.S. The whole of government strategy — with its 10 large-scale priorities and commitment to gender mainstreaming — is an ambitious plan, and ambitious priorities require a significant budget to match.
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Infrastructure Intelligence
Despite university engineering courses still receiving four times more male applications than female, new research has shown a 96% increase in female undergraduate applications from 2011 to 2021. However, while the gender statistics for this STEM subject may look impressive, engineering courses still face a significant gender gap, with 125,320 male applicants in 2021 and just 29,650 female.
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Scientific American
From the COVID-19 vaccine to pulsars to computer programming, women are at the source of many scientific discoveries, inventions and innovations that shape our lives. However, in the stories we've come to accept about those breakthroughs, women are too often left out. Lost Women of Science, looks at women and their scientific accomplishments: who they are, how they lived and what they found out.
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.WOMEN in TECH
National Air and Space Museum
Katherine Johnson's name is now well known as one of NASA's "hidden figures," African American women whose pioneering work was a key part of our success in space. More people than ever before know about the contributions of Johnson and her colleagues, including Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughn and other "human computers."
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Fast Company
It may not be right to expect already overburdened women leaders to battle the structural forces of inequality and solve a mess they did not make. However, at this precise time, it just might be revolutionary. We're the ones most capable of designing a new, better way to work that actually works for women. And — surprise, surprise — we're also the ones most willing to actually do the work.
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The New York Times
The start of the pandemic had a disproportionate affect on investments in companies with at least one female founder. However, new research from PitchBook suggests that change is afoot. This year, start-ups with female founders have fared much better. They have raised more venture capital dollars and have executed more exits at greater values than at any point in the last decade.
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Forbes
"As a female, Latina and member of the LGBTQ+ community, I knew that my journey required a ton of grit and the understanding that it was my responsibility to honor the women who came before me and open the door to the ones coming behind me. It is time for us all to create an environment in which there are no longer questions or doubts on the ability of women to flourish in this industry, especially women of color."
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.WOMEN and the WORKFORCE
The New York Times
For the last two years, finding work-life balance under COVID-19 conditions has disproportionately affected women. Claudia Goldin, author of a new book, "Career and Family: Women's Century-Long Journey Toward Equity," which traces the ascent of college-educated women in the U.S. and their ability to combine well-paid work and motherhood, gives the issue a new-found optimism.
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ScienceDaily
As researchers investigate reasons for America's persistent gender wage gap, one possible explanation that has emerged in roughly the last decade is that women may be less competitive than men, and are therefore passed over for higher-ranking roles with larger salaries. However, new research suggests women exhibit their competitiveness differently.
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.EQUITY in STEM
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Early in my professionalization to EDI work, I would often speak up during event Q&As to ask the experts my most pressing and challenging question: How do we engage the folks who aren't present today? At the time every EDI space I entered at the university was full of the same familiar faces.
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Forbes
Marshall Shepherd writes: "Earlier today, I sat through yet another meeting in which colleagues in the federal sector lobbed the term 'minority' around in describing the lack of diversity within STEM disciplines. Over the years, this term has increasingly bothered me, and I think it is time for it to be retired when describing diversity and inclusion issues within STEM fields."
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