Society, parents, schools and popular media all perpetuate the myth that girls don’t have the brains or ability to be scientists. Of course, that simply isn’t true.
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There are many challenges for young women embarking on a career in science. Here are some tips for how to make it work.
Targets and initiatives are a start but both men and women already in the field need to offer a helping hand.
Separating girls and boys takes away opportunities to learn from one another. It also encourages stereotyping and sexism.
Letters from would-be girl astronauts in the 1960s tell part of the complicated story of sexism – in both NASA and the US at large – at the dawn of the space age.
New research on gendered roles in top-grossing movies has found that 83% of characters in family films with a STEM career are men.
Masculine cultures foster a greater sense of belonging and ability to be successful in boys than they do in girls.
Most people have a very limited understanding of what engineers do – and we engineers don’t do a good job of expanding that view. But if we did, the benefits could be impressive.
Lovelace showed great insight into her subject and for that she’s still a hero to others.
Men still outnumber women in senior positions in Australian universities and other workplaces. Women are pushing for change but it’s men who can help redress the gender balance.
The drive the get more women involved in science should start at an early age. But as one space researcher found out, girls can get nudged out of science at school.
Getting more women into science, technology, engineering and maths fields is a process that involves many parts of a society. Several African countries are setting the pace.
If we want a genuine ideas boom in Australia, then we need to remove the barriers preventing women from reaching the highest levels in science.
The FIRST robotics competition brings school students together to build a robot to complete a challenge. And it’s an inspiring way to encourage interest in STEM.
Women have come a long way in science, but plenty of work remains. After all, gender bias in science doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
It’s fitting that on International Women’s Day we recognise the fact that greater diversity in science boosts research and its economic outcomes.
The push to bridge the gender gap and encourage more women and girls into a career in science gets the backing of the United Nations special day.
The limits of fertility and an elongated academic career path are currently at odds. If the choice to bear children contributes to the ‘leaky pipeline’ of women in STEM, what can be done?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today announced the National Innovation and Science Agenda (NISA). Here’s what it means for science, commercialisation and industry in Australia.
Innovation is all the rage, but it require real reform to promote. Here are five things we could do to improve innovation in Australia.
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Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor of Practice, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Lincoln Professor of Ethics in Public Affairs, Arizona State University
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Professor and Associate Dean - Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow in Antarctic and island conservation science, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
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Australia's Chief Scientist, Office of the Chief Scientist
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Lecturer in Cultural Studies in Health, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland
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Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic Innovation & Change), Professor of Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology
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Research Manager at E61 Institute, Bocconi University
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Professor of Mathematics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Critical Media Practices and Digital Humanities, University of Colorado Boulder
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor, Monash University
