Taking the Scary out of Negotiating Your Salary
When you consider that women hold only 19 percent of undergraduate engineering degrees and make up just 12 percent of the engineering workforce, it’s fair to say that Christina Pensock beat the odds. But once she began receiving offer letters from prospective employers, she realized that earning a degree in the male-dominated field was just one of the obstacles she’d have to overcome as a woman in engineering. Read more »
Stereotypes Can Be Threatening
Stereotyping happens so often in our society that it may seem ordinary, but it is far from harmless. People may feel especially threatened by stereotypes about their own social groups, […] Read more »
3 Ways to Help Introduce Girls to Engineering Today
The students we introduce to engineering today will literally build our future. We owe it to them — and to ourselves — to make sure that we include today’s girls in tomorrow’s engineering workforce. Introduce a girl to engineering today to give her a head start. Read more »
Joyce Kim Is Using Tech to Make the World a Better Place
Joyce Kim left her law career to start a nonprofit that helps workers transfer money to their home countries at little or no cost. Read more »
Campus Teams Busting Biases about Women in STEM
This year, 10 student groups are pumped up about tackling the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Read more »
Best Feminist Super Bowl Commercials
In the year of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, will Super Bowl commercials finally be an inclusive space for women? Read more »
National Mentoring Month: Why Sponsorship Matters for Women in STEM
Although both mentoring and sponsorship can improve women’s recruitment and retention in STEM, AAUW’s “Solving the Equation” research report suggests that sponsorship may be uniquely beneficial. Read more »
New Subscription Service for Emerging “Steminists”
Kina McAllister wanted to experiment. She wanted to be challenged, to get her hands dirty, to play with the toys beyond the pink aisle. She was a budding scientist, eager […] Read more »
Your Guide to Awkward Family Conversations about Sexism
What do you say when your sister says, “I wouldn’t vote for a woman president. They’re too sensitive!” Read more »
Helping Girls Find Their STEM Passion
Kea Jolicoeur attended Tech Trek as an eighth grader and went on to be a camp co-director and earn a degree in engineering. Read more »
