Pick up Steam: Are Efforts To Get More Women, Girls in STEM, Tech Working?

The Oscar-winning film, “Oppenheimer,” that recently won Best Picture, has stirred national interest in the STEM career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the nuclear physicist who is called the “father of the atomic bomb” as well as the field of physics.

With a predominantly male cast, in the film set in the 1940s, the closest a woman gets to sharing in scientific work and notoriety is his wife, Kitty, a traditional non-working spouse. Lisa Meitner, a prominent German nuclear Scientist, was asked to work on the project and she refused.

Career choices, Career success, Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonMarch 15, 2024Women in STEM, Women in TechComment

People First: Leading to Advance Science, Learning, Inclusion For Museums, Communities

Curiosity comes to Dr. Rabiah Mayas naturally.

The first-ever Chief Partnerships Officer at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (one of the largest in the world), says growing up in Silver Springs, MD her parents sent her to the library or the encyclopedia to find answers to her questions.

Opportunities Grow For Women in Science Startups in Cannabis Industry

Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonFebruary 19, 2018female entrepreneurs, Michele Weldon, STEM, Women in STEM, women in the workplaceComment

Filling STEM Pipeline, Saving The World With Women In Tech

“Tech can be used in higher ways,” says Donnovan Andrews, CEO of Overture, who recently launched the inaugural “STEM + HD” event, with HD standing for humanitarian development.

Career choicesMichele WeldonDecember 8, 2017education, gender parity, girls, Michele Weldon, STEM, Women in STEMComment

Women Leaders in Science Under Microscope: Funding Needed For STEM Careers

A gift from her father when she was 8 years old sent Jean Bennett onto a career path in science and medicine, one that will benefit generations to come.

To Infinity and Beyond: Women Leaders in Science Open Universe of Possibilities

Forty one years ago, Fran Bagenal was a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “and the only woman in our group” working on the plasma instrument for NASA’s Voyager mission to Jupiter.

Career choicesMichele WeldonSeptember 11, 2017business, inspirational women, Michele Weldon, science, Women in STEMComment

A Labor Day Dream: The Future of Work Starring Women Leaders

In honor of Labor Day next week, the national paradox of a day off work to salute a day of work, we can look ahead to what is projected as the future of work in this country.

Better Numbers Up Ahead? No Longer Hidden Women Leaders in STEM

What pretend princesses have done for generations to create the success of Disney movies, real women in STEM perhaps have done for the latest box office surge of $84.4 million in ticket sales for the newly Oscar-nominated film, “Hidden Figures.”

Inspirational Role ModelsMichele WeldonJanuary 31, 2017Career, Michele Weldon, Women in STEM, women in the workplace, women leadersComment

STEM Gap: Growing Women Leaders in Sciences From Classroom to C-Suite

The deliberate push for more women leaders in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math has been expanding for the past decade. The movement begins with girls in grade schools, moving through universities and academia into C-suites of innovation and technology start-ups.

Changing the WorkplaceMichele WeldonNovember 15, 2016C-Suite, equality, Michele Weldon, Women in STEM, women in the workplaceComment

Stemming The Tide: Working To Recruit and Keep Women Leaders in STEM

Melinda Gates is on it. And that is a good thing.

As the philanthropic billionaire and co-founder of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates can also add to her influence and investments the efforts of many other entreprenuers, organizations, business leaders, schools and foundations nationally and globally in the movement to keep women leaders in the STEM fields.

Career choicesMichele WeldonOctober 18, 2016Michele Weldon, Philanthropy, Women in STEM, women in the workplace, women leadersComment

The Real Deal: Impostor Syndrome As Women in Workplace in STEM

I’ve been lucky. By and large, I haven’t run into any major disadvantages or advantages to being a woman in the software field. I feel like that’s a story not told enough in the debate, where the experience is just like anything else in life: some good, some bad, overall average.

Data Proves Women Leaders Dominate This STEM Profession

Do you know which major STEM field boasts as many women in the profession as men? Where almost half the college degrees – even at the PhD level – are granted to women? Where women have a significant presence in the most influential circles of the profession?

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