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Topic: women in stem

OpenAI logo is seen displayed on a mobile phone screen, smoke in the background. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Silicon Valley's "coercive" sex parties

Rae Hodge
Astronaut Sally Ride on the flight deck of the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. (NASA/Wikicommons)

NASA makes effort to put women in STEM

Wendy Whitman Cobb - The Conversation
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Women in STEM face huge disadvantages

Farah Qaiser
Annie Easley (NASA)

Annie Easley, barrier-breaking scientist

Dan Samorodnitsky
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The meritocracy myth hurts women in STEM

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan - The Conversation
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Women are fighting climate change

Lauryn Higgins - Salon Young Americans
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Tackling sexism in STEM

Amanda Marcotte
Girl Scouts (Getty/Rick Kern)

Girl Scouts offers STEM badges

Alessandra Maldonado
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Afghanistan’s all-girl robotics team (First Global/Getty/Mark Wilson)

Trump blocks all-girls team

Michael Glassman
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Should we keep 'em separated?

Lise Eliot - The Conversation
Professor Maryam Mirzakhani is the recipient of the 2014 Fields Medal, the top honor in mathematics. She is the first woman in the prize'€™s 80-year history to earn the distinction. The Fields Medal is awarded every four years on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians to recognize outstanding mathematical achievement for existing work and for the promise of future achievement. (Courtesy: Maryam Mirzakhani)

Sarah Gray

Sarah Gray
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