Martha Irvine for Huffington Post: “For many of the women, the chemistry lab was a home away from home – a sorority for nerds, of sorts, that hints at the slow but steady shift in technical fields that have been traditionally filled with men.”
Galen Sherwin for the New York Times: “The education crisis has led schools to search for ways to improve educational outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged students. Unfortunately, this has led many schools to turn to sex segregation. These programs a…
Jonathan Wall writing for Yahoo! Sports: “Like the rest of her Southampton (Va.) Academy teammates, Mina Johnson was supposed to be getting ready for a junior varsity football game on Thursday night against Lasker (N.C.) Northeast Academy…It all seemed…
Laura Stampler writing for the Huffington Post: “Now 77,[Jane] Goodall has become the world’s leading expert on chimpanzees. She travels 300 days out of the year, and holds five professorships, 24 degrees and more than 60 awards. And she doesn’t think be…
Anna Holmes writing for the Washington Post: “The gender disparities in the United States’ STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workforce are troubling. According to a report released last month by the Department of Commerce, although…