Recruiting and Retaining Women in Science, Math & Engineering
Can you imagine what the world would be like if half the scientists in the world were women? Or what national and international science policy would look like if half the legislators were women? Here are some articles grappling with the complex issues and recruiting - and retaining- women in the STEM fields.
RECRUITING WOMEN IN SCIENCE
Recruiting More Women and Minorities in Engineering
The first female dean of engineering at Yale, Kyle Vanderlick, established an introductory level engineering course to attract more college students into the field of engineering when she served as the first female chair of any science department at Princeton. Vanderlick hopes to balance the female-to-male ratio in the Engineering Program by serving as a role model to interested women as well as target other historically underrepresented minorities in engineering in the coming terms.
RETAINING WOMEN IN SCIENCE
What Gender Analysis has to Offer Science and Engineering
A new collection of essays, Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, explores how taking gender into account in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering can enhance human knowledge: Gendered Innovations in S&E