Each month this year, AAUW is teaming up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, to put together an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. Stanford [...]
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Growth Mindsets Benefit Girls and Women in STEM
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Dweck, Gender Stereotypes, growth mindset, math, Stanford University, stereotypes on May 26, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Women Can’t Do the Math?
Posted in AAUW research, Equity in the News, S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged computer science, engineering, math, math test, physics, Weinberger on April 4, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Each month this year, AAUW teams up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, in an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. Some people suggest that [...]
Bark Loudly at the Lion — U.N. Women Has Your Back
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Afsana, Bachelet, Bangladesh, Canright, Chile, Congo, engineering, Erez, Fiji, Intel, math, NASA, NGO, Nigeria, Nwadinobi, Project Girl Performance Collective, science, Status of Women, STEM, Tabualevu, technology, U.N., U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, U.N. Women, UN, Will.i.am on February 23, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
For many in the nongovernmental-organization community, the 55th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women began when more than 250 women of all ages from around the world gathered on Monday for NGO Consultation Day, an opportunity to set the stage for two weeks of workshops, panels, discussions, and interactions that will inform the final [...]
AAUW Awards 12 New Campus Action Project Grants
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged campus action project, Campus Action Projects, engineering, grants, math, technology, women in science on December 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the generous support of the Mary Ann Ahrens–Iowa Giving Circle, AAUW is funding a record 12 Campus Action Project (CAP) teams in the 2009–10 academic year. CAP grants provide up to $5,000 in funding for each of the 12 teams CAP teams, which are made up of students and faculty at colleges and [...]
Games Boys Play
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged math, STEM, video games, women on August 3, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
I talked to a young woman on Monday and she said, “I was a psychology major in college and I design games on my own, but I’m not sure if I would be a good game designer.” The punch line was that the young woman was Erin Robinson, who two days later was one of [...]
The Importance of Female Mentors
Posted in Equity in the News, NCCWSL, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged career, Fellowships and Grants, math, mentor, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, role models, science, STEM, Women and Work, Women of Distinction on June 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Common among the former fellows I’ve interviewed is that having a mentor and being a mentor play important roles in these women’s lives. This message was reiterated in the speech given by Anucha Browne Sanders during the AAUW Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony at the recent National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Sanders said, [...]
The Year of Science
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged education, engineering, girls, math, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, science, STEM, technology on January 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The Year of Science 2009, a national grassroots celebration, launched earlier this month in Boston, Massachusetts. In its honor, museums, federal agencies, schools, scientific societies, and other nonprofit and for-profit organizations will host events in all 50 states and in 13 countries. The celebration is the brainchild of the Coalition on the Public Understanding of [...]
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