“I first noticed it in my undergraduate physics courses. The men in my cohort displayed an uncanny self-confidence not exuded by my female colleagues.”
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Amongst adolescent girls in the U.S., computer science (CS) is perceived a masculine field leading to low numbers of girls and women pursuing CS degrees and widespread perception that they are simply uninterested.
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“When faced with becoming a single parent after nearly a decade of being mostly a stay-at-home mom, I had to decide if I was going to return to the food service industry and work my body to death while just paying the bills, or take a risk in trying to pursue a satisfying career I would be able to sustain passion for over the long haul. I chose the latter."
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Measuring an immeasurable commodity is not for everyone, but Lan Nguyen is up for the challenge. In her chosen field of environmental economics, Lan strives to calculate the value of vital ecosystems that occupy our planet, such as the Chesapeake Bay and the coastal mangrove forests of SE Asia.
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If you’d asked Molecular Cell Biology (MCB) student Eva Childers in her first year at Dartmouth about what it means to be a woman in science, she would have described a near optimal experience. As an undergraduate at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Eva was enticed from her original plan to become a biomedical engineer into the world of biology and biotechnology by her research lab advisor, Amity Manning.
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