So we started drafting an open letter to give a voice to our concerns, but also reaffirm our strong commitment to each other and to support science and to support
women in science in a really inclusive way.
Editor's note: This year, Next Wave will run a continuing series on
Women in Science in Germany.
Her hard work earned her a L'Oreal UK and Ireland Fellowship for
Women in Science in 2008, and the Royal Astronomical Society's 2009 Fowler Award for Astronomy «in recognition of her status as a young scientist of proven achievement and great promise.»
Now she's determined to highlight the issue of
women in science in an unusual medium.
Not exact matches
Amid all the angst about the small percentage of
women who work in computer science, a new research paper has a surprising finding: Women may actually be better coders than
women who work
in computer
science, a new research paper has a surprising finding:
Women may actually be better coders than
Women may actually be better coders than men.
In fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United State
In fact, across the Arab world,
women now earn more
science degrees on a percentage basis than
women in the United State
in the United States.
Canada's richest
woman was a political
science and economics student at the University of Toronto
in the 1960s.
As much as recent efforts to encourage
women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of
science has often made life for
women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.
In Saudi Arabia alone,
women earn half of all
science degrees.
The weakness, by the same token, is
in computer
science, where
women earn only 18 percent of undergraduate degrees.
The
science suggests biology, as
women are far more interested
in nurturing activities, such as teaching.
At Harvey Mudd College, the Claremont, California - based institution where Klawe became president
in 2006, a full half of students who graduate with degrees
in computer
science, engineering, and physics are
women.
«The vast majority of
women who show up at Harvey Mudd didn't expect to want to major
in computer
science,» said Klawe.
In computer
science, engineering, and physics, said Klawe, «underrepresented» means
women and people of color.
In comparison, just 18 percent of computer
science graduates nationwide are
women — a percentage that's been shrinking since 1985, when it stood at 37 percent.
She was a staff writer at a news agency
in Nebraska, covering transportation, and worked
in South Korea for several years where she wrote about
science while freelancing for publications like
Women's Wear Daily and Groove Korea.
The fraction of
women pursuing degrees
in computer
science has declined dramatically since the 1980s.
The Times article cited a study published
in the journal Psychological
Science, which found that when happily married
women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.
Now is the time to consider your job
in science and engineering... You will find that the slogan there as elsewhere is
WOMEN WANTED!
In 2010, as the dust from the financial crisis settled, three women working in disparate parts of the economy noticed that startups in «hard science» (think biology or chemistry rather than tech) weren't getting the attention they deserved from big investor
In 2010, as the dust from the financial crisis settled, three
women working
in disparate parts of the economy noticed that startups in «hard science» (think biology or chemistry rather than tech) weren't getting the attention they deserved from big investor
in disparate parts of the economy noticed that startups
in «hard science» (think biology or chemistry rather than tech) weren't getting the attention they deserved from big investor
in «hard
science» (think biology or chemistry rather than tech) weren't getting the attention they deserved from big investors.
Women in science need role models.
And if you care about
women in science, Editas is a winner twice over.
Morneau plan to raise long - term growth is counting on waves of new measures designed to advance fundamental
science, nurture the innovative economy and to knock down many of the barriers preventing
women from fully participating
in the workforce.
That ongoing debate revolves around whether the lack of
women in high - growth entrepreneurship is partly attributable to the fact that only 18 percent of undergraduate computer
science degrees are earned by
women.
That includes funding programs that teach STEM (
science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people
in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing
in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.
Thanks
in no small part to Klawe,
women now make up 40 % of computer
science majors at the college, up from 10 %
in 2005.
Ivanka Trump, leading her father's delegation to a Global Entrepreneurship Summit
in India, on Wednesday called for more
women to enter engineering and the
sciences.
Northeastern University has a summer program supporting middle - school students
in the
sciences, and MIT has a program to encourage
women to pursue STEM degrees.
-- based leadership training firm Lead by Design knows a
woman in her 50s with a master's degree
in IT
sciences who recently interviewed for a tech position.
According to the National
Science Foundation,
women with bachelor's degrees
in math and computer
sciences has declined by about 25 percent since the mid-80s, when computer games were aggressively marketed as a boy's hobby.
She also said there should be more
women in the field of computer
science, an area that has traditionally been dominated by men.
Last June, the internet giant debuted its Made with Code campaign
in an effort to get young
women excited about computer
science — a field that less than one percent of high school girls think of as part of their future.
In the natural and applied
sciences, only 22 % of private sector full time employees are
women.
The reality is that every
woman's pregnancy is different, as
science writers Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham make abundantly clear in their meticulously researched book, «The Informed Parent: A Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years&
science writers Tara Haelle and Emily Willingham make abundantly clear
in their meticulously researched book, «The Informed Parent: A
Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years&
Science - Based Resource for Your Child's First Four Years».
Another interesting gender difference
in the
science: Extroverted
women are less productive but extroverted men are more so.
Because beyond his typically bombastic proclamation that «it's already too late» for most
women to become programmers is a much more important message: Computer
science ought to be a basic part of school curriculum, giving both male and female students early exposure to an increasingly important skill set
in today's economy.
I thought about how the gender gap persists
in tech despite declining
in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young
women who aspire to study computer
science.
For example,
women earn roughly 18 percent of all computer
science degrees
in the United States.
Developed by Drs. Jorge Chavarro and Walter Willett of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the fertility diet includes 10
science - backed steps to help boost fertility
in women.
To understand why graduation rates
in computer
science are so low for
women, we only need to answer one question: Why do 74 % of high school girls report affinity for STEM subjects
in school and yet, according to a report by the Girl Scout Research Institute, only about 20 % pursue STEM - related undergraduate degrees?
In 2011, a conversation at a monthly «ideas brunch» with Silicon Valley friends turned to the dearth of women in math - and - science careers and how to get girls interested in in science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) subject
In 2011, a conversation at a monthly «ideas brunch» with Silicon Valley friends turned to the dearth of
women in math - and - science careers and how to get girls interested in in science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) subject
in math - and -
science careers and how to get girls interested
in in science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) subject
in in science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) subject
in science, technology, engineering and math (known as STEM) subjects.
The acronym, which stands for
science, technology, engineering and math, is meant to bring awareness to the lack of
women in these technical fields.
Some would - be defenders of Silicon Valley culture have responded that since only 20 % of computer and information
science degrees were awarded to
women (as of 2008, down from 37 %
in 1985) we are exactly where we ought to be.
What's more, she's also using the day to teach her students about the lack of
women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
The discussion touched on all the usual culprits for the underrepresentation of
women in tech industry leadership roles: discrimination
in the workplace, the «pipeline problem» of too few girls studying math and
science, the difficulty of balancing motherhood with the demands of a startup.
Also, there has been previous academic research showing that fast - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs
in the U.S. tend to be men, which is partly because
women are less involved
in science and engineering
in general, says Kelly.
«We felt like the funding from this pack could have the greatest impact by making it possible for more
women to get an education
in those fields, and by giving them a platform to share their work and their passion for
science.»
Most of the successful
women I have interviewed talked about the important role that their parents had played
in encouraging them to pursue
science and engineering and succeed
in a male - dominated industry.
Cards Against Humanity's intellectual expansion «
Science Pack» has raised over $ 578,000 for The Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based women interested in studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics
Science Pack» has raised over $ 578,000 for The
Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based women interested in studying science, technology, engineering, or mathematics
Science Ambassador Scholarship, a scholarship fund for U.S. - based
women interested
in studying
science, technology, engineering, or mathematics
science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM).
According to PayScale's results at least, «Men tend to go into engineering, computer
science, management roles and director roles more so than
women, and those jobs see fairly consistent pay increases year
in and year out,» Bardaro says.