Girl Scouts Add New Badges for STEM, Outdoor Activities
The Girl Scouts announced today that they’re beefing up their offerings in STEM and the outdoors, adding a plethora of…
Lawsuit: NYU Professor Said 'Women Do Not Belong In Science'
OraLee Branch, a malaria researcher who began work as an assistant professor at NYU in 2008, has sued the university’s…
A Biologist Is Writing a Wikipedia Article About a Woman Scientist For Every Harassing Email She Gets
You probably won’t be shocked to read that she has written a whole bunch. Emily Temple-Wood is an undergrad at Loyola…
Persistent Sexual Harassment Is a Primary Reason Women Leave STEM
It’s familiar knowledge that women are underrepresented in the sciences. Despite the fact that girls express equal…
University of Chicago Professor Resigns During Sexual Harassment Investigation
Molecular biologist Jason Lieb has resigned from his professorship at the University of Chicago after the university…
The Scientific Community Has a Serious Harassment Problem
On Monday, the National Science Foundation doubled-down on its commitment to eradicating sexual harassment and…
How One Man Tried to Write Women Out of CRISPR, the Biggest Biotech Innovation in Decades
On January 14, Eric S. Lander published an article in the journal Cell celebrating the “heroes” of CRISPR-Cas9, a…
Florida Public Elementary School Hosts STEM Night Just For Boys
An Orange County, Florida public elementary school has become the target of a Change.com petition after its…
UK Paper Suggests All-Female Archaeology Team Was a 'Publicity Stunt'
In 2013, paleontologist Lee Berger led an all-female team of excavators in a trip into a small chamber in a South…
Russia to Test All-Female Moon Mission: But How Will They Survive Without Makeup?
A group of six very cool Russian women have locked themselves in a fake space ship in an attempt to study what an…
Scientists Condemn Journal For Promoting 'Damaging Stereotypes'
On Tuesday, over 600 scientists and their peers co-signed an open letter addressed to the American Association for the…
Marie Curie Is Getting a Biopic
Good news if you’ve been waiting around for a movie about the life of Marie Curie—and haven’t we all, really?
Science Advice Columnist: Just Let Your Adviser Stare at Your Tits
Starting this Monday off with an absolute bang, a career advice column in the journal Science Careers — a column penned…
The Depressingly Sexist 'Fan Mail' Sent to a Female Science Reporter
Late last week, Emily Graslie of Brain Scoop posted a new video in which she explains exactly why it's so difficult to…
Today's Google Doodle celebrates Maria Mitchell, the first female astronomer in the U.S. who discovered a comet in…
European Commission Improves Its Appeal to Get Girls in the Sciences
Back in June, the European Commission rightfully came under fire after unleashing their horrible "Science: It's a…
"Princess Scientist" Trend Actually Discouraging Girls From Pursuing Science
The latest hotly-debated, possibly back-asswards tactic to convince girls that Science Isn't Just For Uglies is the…
Sally Ride, The First American Woman in Space, Succumbs to Cancer at 61
Early this morning, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride passed away after a 61-year-long life of exploration, boundary…
Lipstick Is Supposed to Get Girls Interested in Science?
In what could be described as tongue-chewingly awful affront to both women and science, the EU Commission — the…
Sky Blue, Water Wet, Achievements of Female Scientists Continually Ignored by Men
Over the last two decades, women have made inroads into the male-dominated fields of science, technology, engineering,…