Girls in Science

Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: You Are Not Too Pretty To Do Math--Or Science!

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 04.06.2012

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2012-02-08-jdjgidjfidjfidijfdfcnvmnmvcnvmcnvmcbvcvbmcbvmcbv.jpgWomen make up just about half of the American workforce, but we hold less than a quarter of the STEM jobs. Why is that?

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Girls and the Future of Science

Meg Urry | Posted 09.18.2011

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Meg Urry

Plenty of girls have the talent and interest to do science, including physics. Last year at Yale, we had more women physics majors than men and the fraction of women is consistently above 20%, the national average. So what is holding women back?

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All Three Winners Of Google Global Science Fair Were Girls From U.S.

Posted 09.14.2011

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Three girls from different parts of the country defied the status quo earlier this week -- by snagging the top title in a global science fair for each...

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