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IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Prachi Patel |
Math Quiz: Why Do Men Predominate? It's culture, not biology.   |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004 |
MIT's Chief On America's Slide And How To Fix It Susan Hockfield will become the first female president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in early December, taking on huge challenges at the premier U.S. science school. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
William C. Symonds |
A Breakthrough For MIT -- And Science Five years after conceding rampant sexism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a new president, Susan Hockfield. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Prachi Patel |
Math and Gender Women do best in math wherever women do best in everything else |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
William C. Symonds |
Harvard: No Longer Most Likely To Succeed President Larry Summers' bold reform plan for Harvard -- including undergraduate education improvement, increase in Harvard's role in science and engineering, and expansion of the campus -- could be derailed. |
ifeminists
January 26, 2005
Glenn Sacks |
Where's the Outrage? It is noteworthy that an academic's tepid remarks on women have set off an international media storm, yet males are continually disparaged and criticized in academia with hardly a protest. |
Salon.com
April 12, 2001
Cathy Young |
Sex and science Are women discriminated against in the lab? Or are gender imbalances due to intellectual differences? |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Amy Benfer |
Lost boys While girls surge ahead in all subjects at school, boys are lagging behind. Is "girl power" to blame? Do boys need their own dose of "empowerment"? |
Reason
February 2001
Cathy Young |
Where the Boys Are Is America shortchanging male children? |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Erico Guizzo |
The EE Gender Gap Is Widening Electrical engineering faces an age-old question: What do women want? |
Fast Company
Jane Porter |
The Fascinating Evolution of Brogramming And The Fight To Get Women Back Programming hasn't always been such a male-dominated field. By the 1960s, women made up 30% to 50% of all programmers. A documentary film, CODE, attempts to explore this topic. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2009 |
Youngsters Say No to Engineering as a Career While the engineering workforce continues to age, the looming question is who will replace them? According to the American Society for Quality, it won't be today's American children. Engineering isn't even on the radar for most kids. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2006 |
Girls on Technology A study brings video games into the classroom to address the persistent digital gender gap. |
CIO
April 30, 2012
Michael Friedenberg |
What Will It Take to Get More Women Execs in IT? Women still make up a woefully small percentage of STEM professionals. Will the tide will change soon? |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Amy Benfer |
One for the lads The British tackled their own education gender gap by letting boys be boys -- with mixed results... |
Smithsonian
November 2005 |
35 Who Made a Difference: Sally Ride A generation later, the first female astronaut is still on a mission: making sure that girls get to share in the adventure that is science. |
Salon.com
March 9, 2001
Amy Benfer |
Battle of the celebrity gender theorists Christina Hoff Sommers skewers Carol Gilligan, Jane Fonda and their "girl crisis" rhetoric... |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2014
Maria Burke |
Pledge to create 2000 new STEM posts Leading UK businesses and institutions have pledged to create over 2000 new jobs and apprenticeships in science, technology, engineering and math. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Prachi Patel-Predd |
A League Of Extraordinary Women All too few girls consider engineering as a career, and the profession is the poorer for it, as talented individuals seek vocations elsewhere. But a new program is in the works in the United States to attract young women to engineering -- and to keep them in the career. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Cori Vanchieri |
Jo Handelsman: Engage to Excel How to keep STEM students from jumping ship? |
T.H.E. Journal
August 26, 2009
David Nagel |
Federal Grants Aim To Boost STEM Equity The United States Department of Education announced about $6.3 million in grants to programs aimed at bringing underrepresented groups into STEM careers and pursuing advanced degrees. |
Job Journal
January 25, 2004
Marty Nemko |
Where's the Passion? Are you avoiding sterotypical careers you might enjoy? |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Kathryn Brown |
The Tao of Science Fairs Some outstanding science fair prize winners and their current activities are profiled. |
National Defense
June 2007
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Education Trends Portend Trouble for Defense One of the most troubling trends in the U.S. is that our schools are producing fewer U.S.-born science and math graduates than countries such as China, Taiwan, South Korea, India and Mexico. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Erico Guizzo |
Engineering the Harvard Engineer One man's determined quest to make Harvard a contender in engineering after 372 years |
Chemistry World
August 15, 2013
Julia Higgins |
Diversity: leading the way The Royal Society, funded by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills, and in parallel with the Royal Academy of Engineering's diversity scheme, has set out a program to address diversity in science. For many of us, the word diversity raises the gender question. |
Salon.com
June 21, 2000
Cathy Young |
It's payback time In "The War Against Boys," author Christina Hoff Sommers claims that unfair programs to empower girls have taken a toll on boys. |
ifeminists
May 1, 2008
Ian Morris |
The Gender-Equity Hammer Comes Clean The author argues that preferential treatment of women has not only impeded the advance of science, but has also exacerbated the fact that there have been many brilliant women scientists who seem to be forgotten in history and popular memory. |
ifeminists
February 1, 2006
Carey Roberts |
Bias Suit Reveals the Truth Behind the 'Boy Crisis' Why American boys are falling academically behind in a glitter and feathers world. |
Chemistry World
December 8, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
Chemistry performs better on gender balance in US than other physical science Of 9290 physical sciences PhDs awarded at US universities in 2013, 2491 were in chemistry and almost 40% were granted to women. |
Investment Advisor
September 2005
Olivia Mellan |
The Psychology of Advice: Gender Matters A financial advisor's understanding of male-female differences (and similarities) can offer more insight, more compassion, and more inspiration in helping individuals and couples create the life they envision. |
Investment Advisor
October 2005
Karen C. Altfest |
Gender Focus Do most financial advisors fully understand how best to engage women and assist them in achieving their financial goals? Learning how women feel about their own financial prowess that can enable planners to more effectively understand women as clients. |
CIO
August 1, 2005
Gary Beach |
Bricklayers or Architects? The inadequate math and science education of America's youth is a serious issue in the workplace and for the country's future economic strength. |
ifeminists
March 23, 2005
Glenn Sacks |
New Study of Youth Shows It's Boys Who Are in Crisis The question of whether boys or girls have been doing better has been a point of sometimes rancorous debate among feminist and other scholars in recent decades. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
John Blau |
Germany Faces a Shortage of Engineers Even loosening immigration won't fill the gap, say experts |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
Laura D'Andrea Tyson |
New Clues To The Pay And Leadership Gap The problem for women is breaking through the glass ceiling, not getting equal compensation once they do so. So a nagging question remains: Why do so few women make it to the top corporate echelons? |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Jean Kumagai |
Rensselaer to Require All Engineering Students to Study Abroad A new effort to internationalize American engineering education. |
InternetNews
November 14, 2006
Roy Mark |
U.S. Education, Competitive Edge Not Adding Up Declining U.S. science, math and engineering grad rates slowing America's global economic pace, new report says. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2006
Appu Kuttan & Laurence Peters |
Calculating a Future That Doesn't Add Up Failing to reverse the trends in our math and science education will have severe effects on our children's welfare - and the nation's, too. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2007
Joyce Fassl |
Promoting the Profession Retaining engineering knowledge within manufacturing operations as well as laying the groundwork to foster more interest in engineering careers may be some of the toughest problems the food industry will face in the next decade. |
ifeminists
April 6, 2005
Carey Roberts |
Gender: Good Riddance, Farewell Scientists back the idea that anatomical and functional gender differences exist. |
ifeminists
April 22, 2003
Carey Roberts |
UNICEF's One-Sided Pursuit of Gender Equality This Special Report analyzes the UNICEF sex-specific programs for girls and boys. |
ifeminists
June 15, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Missing: Males on College Campuses Some researchers call them the "Lost Boys." They are the students you don't see on college campuses. New statistics show an annual decreasing ratio of male-to female students in all degree-granting institutions. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Robert W. Lucky |
Is Math Still Relevant? The queen of the sciences may someday lose its royal status |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
Philip E. Ross |
A Double Standard for Women Engineers? When male scientists posed half-naked for a calendar in the 1990s they got kudos; now that female engineering students have done the same, they face recriminations. |
BusinessWeek
March 28, 2005 |
What Larry Summers Got Right Many women opt out of the workplace. Employers can offer flexible work arrangements to them. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2010
Nick Kapur |
What's Going to Happen to Men? As we limp toward recovery, it's becoming clear that men are not only a disproportionately large segment of the unemployed population, but that they also occupy or occupied jobs that are not likely to reappear soon. |
National Defense
March 2011
Cynthia D. Miller |
National Science Foundation Supports STEM Education Of equal importance to the foundation is the support of science and engineering education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school and beyond, with a variety of fellowships and programs specifically for teachers and students. |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2012
Lesley Yellowlees |
Standing up for chemistry As I start my term as president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, I'd like to share some of the issues I wish to address during my presidency. |
Chemistry World
August 21, 2013 |
Stemming the tide While overt gender discrimination is less common today in universities and corporations, women are still leaving chemistry in greater numbers than men. Laura Howes looks at how people are mending the leaky pipeline |
