STEM

Everything is Awesome About These Female Lego Figures

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Artist Maia Weinstock creates series of Lego minifigures based on trailblazing women like Justice Ruth Ginsberg and Temple Grandin.

Fewer international students coming to US for grad school in science and engineering

January 18, 2018Jobs

How H-1B work visas transformed tech and education in the US and India

August 25, 2017Business, Finance & Economics

How actress Hedy Lamarr became the ‘mother of Wi-Fi’

June 9, 2017Arts

Decades before they choose a career, girls think being ‘really, really smart’ is for boys

February 3, 2017Education

Fighting the STEM gender gap with stories of trailblazing female scientists

January 13, 2017Books

“I think when people close their eyes and think of who a scientist is, they don’t see a woman,” says Rachel Ignotofsky. Her new book aims to change that.

Barbie dolls are seen in a window of a toy store.

Barbie typewriter toys had a secret ability to encrypt messages — but they didn’t think girls would care

January 13, 2017Culture

When Barbie released a typewriter “for girls” — they decided the girls wouldn’t care about its cryptographic capabilities.

Here’s a doll house for little engineers

August 28, 2015Education

If you want your daughter to get interested in STEM, you might want to consider asking Santa for a saw instead of a Barbie.

High school girl to college recruiters: Don’t make everything pink!

July 15, 2015Education

Last year, Virginia high school senior Abby Wheat decided she’d had enough of the pinkification of STEM, so she decided to write about it.

Hank Green honors the woman who taught him ‘School wasn’t about getting an ‘A.’ It was about understanding’

June 9, 2015Education

For Across Women’s Lives’ education week, YouTube entrepreneur Hank Green thanks the teacher who taught him, “School wasn’t about getting an ‘A.’ It was about understanding.”

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