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Amazon used AI to promote diversity. Too bad it’s plagued with gender bias.
AI may have sexist tendencies. But, sorry, the problem is still us humans.
Amazon recently scrapped an employee recruiting algorithm plagued with problems, according to a report from Reuters. Ultimately, the applicant screening algorithm did not retu…
These videos of girls meeting female STEM stars will help you dream big
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This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
Women have made invaluable, groundbreaking contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math. Yet if you’re a girl who doesn’t see that represented in popular culture, you might think a STEM career is for men — particularly those who solve problems with equal measures of brilliance and bluster.
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Latinas hold only 2% of STEM jobs. These 5 women are working to fix that.
This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
Many barriers st…
How a science program teaches girls to stop doubting themselves
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This post is part of Mashable’s ongoing series The Women Fixing STEM, which highlights trailblazing women in science, tech, engineering, and math, as well as initiatives and organizations working to close the industries’ gender gaps.
With patience, Emily Cruz detangled a vine with Dorito-shaped leaves from a fallen branch, unwinding it slowly and then pulling it out from the roots.
The 12-year-old and 40 other middle-school girls were working to remove what’s known as mile-a-minute vines recently from New York City’s largest green space as part of a program aimed at encouraging girls to pursue environmental science. Over the years, the fast-growing plant has elbowed its way into Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, which is more than three times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park Read more…
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How Shuri from ‘Black Panther’ is inspiring young women in STEM
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Kids are drawing more female scientists than ever before
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Imagine asking a classroom full of elementary school students to draw a scientist. Now try to guess how many of them would sketch a female or male scientist.
In the decade that spanned 1966 to 1977, teachers across the country gave 4,800 elementary school students this exact task in what became known as the Draw-A-Scientist study. Then a researcher named David Wade Chambers analyzed the drawings. What he found, in 1983, might not surprise you: Only 28 of the children drew a female scientist — and those students were all girls. That amounted to less than one percent of all students.
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View More Kids are drawing more female scientists than ever beforeHillary Clinton has a new role: Cheerleader for teen girls
After months of explaining what happened during the 2016 election to stunned supporters on her book tour, Hillary Clinton finally got to talk about the future, one in which women are no longer the minority when it comes to holding office or STEM care…
View More Hillary Clinton has a new role: Cheerleader for teen girlsOn National STEM Day, there’s still a lot of work to do for women
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It’s National STEM day, and that means yet another reminder that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math.
As educators mark their field’s national holiday, LinkedIn isn’t letting us forget one of the core problems facing STEM students and professionals.
The jobs site looked at gender representation across college degrees and across software and IT, healthcare, and finance—all STEM-heavy fields.
“In honor of National STEM Day, we looked at how women around the globe are faring in STEM-heavy industries—software and IT, healthcare, and finance. This included looking over the past 10 years on what women studied in university to ultimately land them in their respective careers,” LinkedIn wrote in a blog post. “What we found was that the gap starts early. While women are pursuing degrees relevant to STEM fields, they are severely underrepresented amongst graduates with technical degrees, and there is a high demand for more women in STEM fields.” Read more…
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