Tag: Women in STEM
Only about 1 in 5 engineering degrees go to women
Danyelle Tauryce Ireland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Despite various efforts to encourage...
Women’s History Month: 5 groundbreaking researchers who mapped the ocean floor,...
Maggie Villiger, The Conversation
Behind some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries and innovations are women whose names might...
Comic book introduces kids to key concepts and careers in cybersecurity
Kara Dawson, University of Florida and Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida
Students crack a secret message using this...
Trailblazing women who broke into engineering in the 1970s reflect on...
Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University
Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated...
None of the 2021 science Nobel laureates are women – here’s...
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
All of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.
Explorer Robert Ballard’s memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in...
Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University
Who doesn’t love a good story, especially one about amazing discoveries in Earth’s farthest reaches?...
Why don’t more women win science Nobels?
Mary K. Feeney, Arizona State University
All of the 2019 Nobel Prizes in science were awarded to men.
That’s a return to business as usual, after...
#MeToo, workplace equality and the ‘wave of women’: 3 essential reads
Bryan Keogh, The Conversation and Nicole Zelniker, The Conversation
Editor’s note: As we come to the end of the year, Conversation editors take a look...