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- Uk's 'your Life' Campaign: Government, Industry, And Universities' Concrete Steps To Recruiting Women In Stem
In early May the UK launched its ?Your Life? campaign, a new STEM initiative focused on spreading the message that science and math are the pathway to a successful and well-paid career*. The initiatives concrete goals are to:Increase the total number...
- Gender & Race Differences In Nonacademic Careers For Stem Ph.d.s
Nonacademic career trajectories are an important and often overlooked piece of the conversation about recruitment and retention of women and minorities in STEM. A new analysis by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) shows 61% of STEM Ph.D.s...
- Aaswomen January 27, 2014
AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of January 24, 2014 eds. Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, Nick Murphy, amp; Nicolle Zellner This week's issues: 1. Our Women's Committee Ain't Like Other...
- Evaluating A Diversity Research Program
Guest Post by Sarah Schmidt, astronomy postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University The Pre-Major in Astronomy Program (Pre-MAP) at the University of Washington (UW) was designed to increase the number of under-represented students...
- Are Stem Programs Effective?
Since graduate school, when the issues facing women in STEM first became apparent to me, I?ve been involved in several programs that seek to increase the number of women in STEM majors and career fields; most of these programs focus on K12 female students. ...
Astronomy
Lady Paragons: Building a Women in STEM Community
Below is a guest post is by Sarah Worsham cofounder of LadyParagons.com describing the goals of her site and how you can get involved.
Do you remember what led you to a career in science? For me, I grew up with a father who was a physics teacher and then a computer science teacher. We had a computer in the house for as long as I can remember. I grew up playing mostly with boys -- my favorite toys were Legos, Transformers and anything space related. I thought science was cool -- my favorite subject at school and I had some great science teachers. In high school I decided I wanted to go into engineering so I could design cars.
At college, my engineering classes had a minority of women, especially when I switched from mechanical to computer engineering. I did have a few female professors, but internships groups we almost entirely male. After college, being the minority gender was the norm, but I didn't let it bother me. It still doesn't, at least in terms of working with others, but it does bother me that more women aren't in STEM fields, and aren't in management and leadership roles.
To try to address this problem, my sister, Marie (who is a PhD in Pharmacology and Molecular Chemistry), and I are building an online community at LadyParagons.com where ladies can help ladies succeed in STEM careers.
To do this, we are:
- Blogging about women and organizations in STEM.
- Podcasting interviews with women in STEM to tell their stories.
- Maintaining a directory or organizations that can help women and girls in STEM.
- Hosting a community where ladies can help ladies succeed in STEM careers (mentoring, answering questions, volunteering time & skills).
- Developing lesson plans and teaching resources to help students learn about women who have been successful in STEM careers, and to make learning STEM subjects fun for girls.
- Donating a portion of any profits to a STEM organization that benefits women and/or girls.
We need your help! You can help by:
- Volunteering to be interviewed by email and/or in a podcast to tell your story and share your experience and insights.
- Submitting STEM events for our calendar.
- Adding STEM resources (organizations, etc) for our Resource list.
- Guest blogging about issues that affect women in STEM.
Please also connect with us on Twitter and follow us on Facebook.
- Uk's 'your Life' Campaign: Government, Industry, And Universities' Concrete Steps To Recruiting Women In Stem
In early May the UK launched its ?Your Life? campaign, a new STEM initiative focused on spreading the message that science and math are the pathway to a successful and well-paid career*. The initiatives concrete goals are to:Increase the total number...
- Gender & Race Differences In Nonacademic Careers For Stem Ph.d.s
Nonacademic career trajectories are an important and often overlooked piece of the conversation about recruitment and retention of women and minorities in STEM. A new analysis by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) shows 61% of STEM Ph.D.s...
- Aaswomen January 27, 2014
AAS Committee on the Status of Women AAS Committee on the Status of Women Issue of January 24, 2014 eds. Michele M. Montgomery, Daryl Haggard, Nick Murphy, amp; Nicolle Zellner This week's issues: 1. Our Women's Committee Ain't Like Other...
- Evaluating A Diversity Research Program
Guest Post by Sarah Schmidt, astronomy postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University The Pre-Major in Astronomy Program (Pre-MAP) at the University of Washington (UW) was designed to increase the number of under-represented students...
- Are Stem Programs Effective?
Since graduate school, when the issues facing women in STEM first became apparent to me, I?ve been involved in several programs that seek to increase the number of women in STEM majors and career fields; most of these programs focus on K12 female students. ...