The showcase marked the end of the first half program for the girls in the SpaceTrek program. Organizers say they will spend ...

All too often, female students are underrepresented in STEM classes. As a result, girls and young women have a hard time exploring the subjects and picturing themselves in related roles. Some progress ...

Sahana Rajiv created a web-based tool and workshops to make architecture and STEM learning more accessible.

The organizations will celebrate Reaching for the Stars: NASA Science for Girl Scouts on August 21 with total solar eclipse viewing events. Mountain View, CA—Today, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) ...

In a classroom on Georgia State's Atlanta Campus, more than a dozen middle and high school girls are wearing lab coats and peering into test tubes. They're conducting an epidemiology experiment—the ...

Imagine the powerful transformations that could be achieved if half the world’s population — girls and women — could realize their potential in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM. This ...

For nearly 20 years, academic strategies, support and policies focused on closing long-standing achievement gaps in STEM between boys and girls. These efforts paid off, and by 2019, girls’ achievement ...

A group of children collaborates on various STEM projects at a table. One child is focused on programming a laptop, while others build models using construction kits. Growing up in mid-century America ...

STEM careers are on the rise. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in STEM occupations is expected to grow by 10.4 percent from 2023 to 2033, compared to just 3.6 percent for ...

In the book and television series Lessons in Chemistry, when asked to name a female scientist, one of the characters can only think of Marie Curie. Perhaps this isn’t surprising, as the story is set ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice, among other publications. It’s been more than five years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and new research ...