Etsy's Revolutionary Yet Simple Policy Results in More Female Engineers
What happens when 80% of your customers are female, but your engineers behind-the-scenes are 87% male? If you're Etsy, you try to fix it.
Science Cheerleaders Invite Children to Admire Their Perky, Bouncy…
One of the challenges in convincing little girls to want to be smart is that they've been indoctrinated by society and princess culture into thinking that being smart is a thing that ugly mustachioed chicks do because no one wanted to marry them and they're too allergic to hoard cats. Enter the Science Cheerleaders…
Sky Blue, Water Wet, Achievements of Female Scientists Continually…
Over the last two decades, women have made inroads into the male-dominated fields of science, technology, engineering, and medicine. But you wouldn't know it if you asked the men who tend to chair scientific awards committees, who award research-based science awards to men 95% of the time. If a glass ceiling breaks and …
The Gadget Camp For Girls
This particular summer camp isn't a place to debate the iPhone versus the Droid — it's a hands-on camp to get girls interested in engineering and manufacturing, a field in which only a quarter of the workers are women. Profiled in The Times today, the sixteen-girl camp, made up mostly of girls from low-income…
Why Women In Computer Science Matter
Last week, Harvard celebrated a record number of female students declaring a computer science major. But the school — and the field — may still have a ways to go.
The Real Reason Women Quit Engineering
One popular explanation for the dearth of women in science and engineering fields has been that women freely choose to leave these fields in order to spend more time with family. However, a new report shows that, at least for engineering, that isn't the whole story.
Women Get More PhDs than Men; Academia Possibly To Discover Gender…
Last year was the first year ever that more PhDs went to women than men. Now will academia eventually reflect the shifting paradigm?
It's Back To School For Aspiring Female Engineers
[Berlin, September 1: Mechanical engineering trainees get comfortable in the workshop while they learn the tools of their trade. Image via Getty.]