jtotheizzoe:

Girls in STEM

It’s not a secret that women (and pretty much any minority group) have uphill battle after uphill battle facing them when it comes to succeeding in math, science and engineering fields. Some of these are explicit (like the tilted playing field of the tenure system, which could take 100 years to level out), and some are more obscured (like the quiet social pressures that push them away from science). But what is clear is that it does not have to be the case.

I was really struck by this infographic’s ability to capture how quickly and precipitously women drop out of many fields of science once social pressures begin to take over. 

I hope that projects like ScienceCheerleader, IAmScience, DoubleXScience and This Is What A Scientist Looks Like (<- bonus points if you can find me on that one) can continue to make this image a relic of the past and not a picture of the future.

(ᔥ EngineeringDegree.net, click here for enlargification)

lookslikescience:

Ricky Corder, M.S. Entomology

Photo by http://sarahbentham.com

One of my pics is up on Treeporn.  

treeporn:

Trees along my walk.  Submitted by Jeanne.  

A great new site, and a wonderful initiative!  Here is my submission…

lookslikescience:

I’m a scientist, and my kid has temper tantrums.

-Jeanne Garbarino, PhD

@jeannegarb, Double X Science, The Mother Geek

After messing around with some camera settings, I managed to take my very first picture of the moon. In full.

nownyc-notcool:

Women, the root of all men’s problems. At least, according to Carlton beer.

This is pretty awful.

Last week, I had the absolutely wonderful opportunity to tell a story at The Story Collider, which is a venue for people to tell a tale about how science has touched their lives. My story,…

In which I tell a story about taking a pregnancy test, giving birth, and perspective.

I recently had the opportunity to tour a GlaxoSmithKline vaccine packaging facility in Marietta, PA with a group of other women. I was the only scientist in the group and the others, which…