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Smart Girls is proud to partner with It’s Okay To Be Smart for this super-special project!

We want you to make a short video telling us about your favorite #ScienceWoman — tell us which female scientist inspires you, and why! It can be someone from history, someone from today, even someone you know in real life.

Upload + tag your videos #ScienceWoman here or visit our site for more information (link in profile) 🔬🍃🌻🔭

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Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the US economy, they hold less than 25% of STEM jobs. This has been the case throughout the past decade, even as college-educated women have increased their share of the overall workforce.

US Department of Commerce

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"We have the responsibility as a country to move the needle on girls and young women in STEM careers from 24 percent of our current workforce to 50 percent.

http://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2014/01/09/million-women-mentors-launched-to-fill-the-gap-of-women-in-stem-fields

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"Today, women hold only 27 percent of all computer science jobs, and that number isn’t growing."

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Tell me we don’t need feminism.

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Portraits of Women Scientists

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#STEM #women

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In 2013 women are passing men in the number of college graduates and make up at least 47% of the work force. Yet we still lag behind in STEM fields. Why?  Gender bias is real. 

There are three main parts to this issue

1. The misconception that boys are naturally better at math. This has been proven time and time again to be false. This mindset discourages girls from pursuing STEM related degrees. Simply telling girls that there is no difference in abilities can impact test scores. As does encouraging women to see math prowess not as an inherent trait, but as a skill that can be practiced and mastered. 

2. The culture in college STEM fields is a deterrent to women. The stereotype that STEM majors are obsessive reclusive men, is false. Active recruiting of women, planned social meetings, and women to women mentoring programs solve some of this issue. 

3. STEM careers are heavily male-dominated and not family friendly. Lack of insurance for post docs and lack of time off for maternal leave deters new trainees. Because of the lack of women in these fields there are less connections that new women can gain. Improving family leave, creating new networks for women, and changing the image of scientists can all help to change this trend.

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How many women can you guess? Do you remember/know what each one of them did/discovered? Once you make your guess, head over to All Science, All the Time to see if you were right:http://ow.ly/pXjrG source

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Women are capable of so much.

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Welcome!

Hello everyone! We are a small group in Chicago working on a project to bring awareness to an issue important to us. We choose inequality in STEM fields. We believe this problem begins at a young age, with a variety of contradicting ideas targeted at males and females. We want that to stop, and we want our girls to change the world, whether that be through science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.

Join us in our movement to give everyone an equal chance to leave an imprint in the world!

thanks!

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This is what our group is about. We want girls like her to be able to blossom in her desired field of science or technology. Allow women to change the world too, 

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We want to call attention to the gender stereotypes that NEED to be broken, specifically in STEM fields. If she is interested in it, allow her to thrive...

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