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Legislators: Women Are Not Cows and Pigs
This week the Georgia State Legislature debated a bill in the House, that would make it necessary for some women to carry stillborn or dying fetuses until they ‘naturally’ go into labor. In arguing...
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Young Girls’ Barrier to Higher Education
“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” -The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald As a student ambassador at university, I was...
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A Man’s Perspective On She++ And Encouraging Women To Explore Technology
This post is originally published on Changemakers and is cross-posted with permission. At a conference promoting women in technology last year, Eventbrite co-founder Julia Hartz noted that her board...
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Accurate and Comprehensive Sexual Education is Our Right
There are a few lessons we can take away from Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-MO) recent outrageous remarks, the first being that you can lack total empathy and be mind-numbingly dense, yet still somehow be an...
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Why We Desperately Need More Women in STEM Fields
So, your six-year-old daughter has been dreaming of becoming a computer scientist. And, as much as you tell her that she will be able to do anything she wants to do, what you’re not telling her is the...
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Testing Assumptions about Women and Technology
This post is originally published at Changemakers and is cross-posted with permission. It is the first post in a three-part series with the theme, “What is a challenge to the women in your community...
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“If You Break It, You Fix It” and Other Creeds of the Young Makers Among Us
This post is originally published at Changemakers and is cross-posted with permission. It is the second post in a three-part series with the theme, “What is a challenge to the women in your community...
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Portrait of our Times: Women, Technology, and Inclusivity in the City
This post is originally published at Changemakers and is cross-posted with permission. It is the last post in a three-part series with the theme, “What is a challenge to the women in your community...
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Einstein, AAUW, and Getting Jewish Women Scientists out of Nazi Germany
This post was originally published at AAUW and is cross-posted with permission. Last week we celebrated the birthday of one of history’s greatest scientific minds, Albert Einstein. It is a perfect...
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Unleash Your Strong. Smart. Bold. with Girls Inc. of New York City
Strong. Smart. Bold. These three small words ignited a movement over 100 years ago to educate girls and prepare them to be self-sufficient and successful women. Today, Girls Inc. is a leading youth...
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How I Took the Hour of Code Challenge
Me absorbed in coding my computer game. I remember being in high school, sitting in a back corner of a warm computer lab listening to the keystrokes and mouse clicks of my classmates. It was my first...
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Fem2pt0 » Science & TechnologyWhy Is the Math Gender Gap So Much Worse in the...
Could it be the boy crisis? A new international study released last week shows that during the past 100 years, the first in which girls have been educated en masse, girls have out-performed boys...
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