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Million Women Mentors Leadership Circle
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Key Highlights
- Pledge Growth – MWM has achieved over 1.85 million pledges of which 842,000 of those pledges have been completed. We seek to reach 2 million pledges by the Summit & Awards in October, 2017.
- State Growth – MWM is currently in 42 states and have had a combined 150 events over the past year.
- Global Growth – MWM has presence in Mexico, Poland, Canada, the UK and Ireland with expecting to have a footprint in South Africa, India & UAE in the coming years.
Best Practices & Takeaways
- Partnership Between Organizations & Government Agencies – This partnership can work together to promote mentoring women into STEM fields. Government agencies provide the An example of this is Walmart’s partnership with Arkansas Lt. Gov. as they went on a “Roadshow” to increase MWM awareness around the state.
- Country Strategies – MWM is a scalable movement that can be introduced to a number of countries. In order to successfully do so, develop a MWM strategy based on each country’s needs and adapt methodology to country of interest. This includes culture & specific regional needs.
- Alignment Across the Organization - Organizations can better address the STEM problem by standardizing focuses across organizations so no one team owns an issue. PepsiCo is a prime example of leveraging their entire corporate structure to support the STEM talent movement
- Co-Produced Publications – Organizations can partner with STEMconnector®/Million Women Mentors to share best practices & provide thought leadership. In partnership with STEMconnector®, Tata Consultancy Services released Corporate Best Practices for Mentoring Women in STEM.
Upcoming Areas to Participate
- MWM Summit & Awards – The Million Women Mentors Summit & Awards will be held on October 23rd & 24th at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. You can register here.
- Release of NSF White Paper – This will outline the best practices and key takeaways from the NSF conference. It will be released at the MWM Summit & Awards.
- Women in Insurance White Paper – MWM & ACORD will produce a white paper focused on insurance executives and their focus on women in their business. This will be released at the MWM Summit & Awards.
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TATA Consultancy Services with STEMconnector Hosted Corporate Best Practices for Mentoring Women in STEM
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In today’s national workforce, there are a few numbers that just don’t add up. Women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, but they hold less than 25 percent of jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Although women comprise more than 20 percent of engineering school graduates, only 11 percent of practicing engineers are women. Of 100 female students working toward a bachelor’s degree, only three will be working in a STEM job 10 years after graduation.
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WiSci 2017: Passion Meets Purpose
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The Women in Science (WiSci) STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Design, and Mathematics) camp is not only an opportunity for young women to learn technology and life skills, not by a long shot. This experience is so much more than just another summer tech camp for girls. It is an extraordinary place and time where life-long friendships are born, myths are busted, and young women from lands near and far come together to be intellectually stimulated, emotionally inspired, and dared to dream bigger than they ever did before.
Intel is proud to be a co-founding partner working in close collaboration with the U.S. Department of State and the United Nations Foundation (UNF) Girl Up Campaign. I am particularly privileged and blessed with the opportunity to participate in all three of the WiSci camps.
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Op-ed: We Need to Get More Women Into U.S. Engineering Jobs
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Within organizations, a recent MIT study found, women engineers are often discouraged or shut out from opportunities by flawed group dynamics and biases that steer the most interesting and challenging opportunities to men.
Fortunately, these are challenges we have the tools to solve.
The Boeing Company, for example, has put in place a company-wide all-hands-on-deck effort to tackle this problem and eliminate roadblocks to establishing a truly gender-neutral workforce at every level.
This starts with a massive commitment to supporting STEM education and ensuring that girls have equal STEM opportunities.
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CANADA: GM Focusing on Future Innovators with STEM Initiatives and Hackathon
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Shortly after hosting its first artificial intelligence-focused hackathon, General Motors Canada is diving into the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with initiatives meant to encourage children, specifically young girls.
The shift towards these initiatives comes after a report from Engineers Canada stated that the national enrollment of women in university STEM programs is 20 per cent and that only about 14 per cent of Canada’s 280,000 professional engineers are women. As GM Canada grows, it is looking to course-correct and create a more diverse workforce.
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CANADA: Breaking The Mould As A Girl In STEM
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Despite being a woman founder of a tech startup with two pending software patents and having completed a thesis in herbal medicine within my first year of university, I struggle to associate myself as a woman in STEM.
The message to conform to fit in is not one I support, because it sends a message to girls that it's beneficial to hide their identity to fit in.
In the halls, I almost always had my sense of belonging questioned. I commonly would get asked: "Are you lost? Do you need to find the Social Sciences building?" You see, the Social Sciences building is where girls like me were supposed to be. "My feminine tastes do not define my intelligence or leadership potential."
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IRELAND: Women Hindered in Surgical Careers
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A lack of access for women to high-quality surgical fellowships, working conditions during pregnancy and supports available to those returning to work after absences are among the barriers to female progress in surgery, a new report has found.
The document from the RCSI Working Group on Gender Diversity, launched by the Minister for Health on Monday (July 10), found that while 50 per cent of medical graduates are female, just 7 per cent of surgeons are women.
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AUSTRALIA: Movers Shakers & Policy Makers - Carol Dweck, Author, Professor of Psychology
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Inspired early on in her life by how different people treat the challenges they face, Carol Dweck has devoted her career to mining for deep insights that help improve our understanding of intelligence. She rose to prominence in 2006 when her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success garnered critical acclaim. We spoke with Dweck at EduTECH in June, following her presentation entitled Growth Mindset - Culture and Strategy. Here, she shares her insights.
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PAKISTAN: WECREATE Startup Academy- Women Change for a Better Future
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WECREATE Pakistan’s flagship program, Startup Academy aims to serve this purpose by offering a program that has been especially designed to accelerate the startup process. During this 10-week program, women-led startups undergo experiential business-building sessions. With a panel of over 30 mentors, Startup Academy offers hands-on one-to-one mentoring and coaching sessions to enable startups towards revenue generation. The essential business aspects that are touched upon during Startup Academy include Branding, Business Model, Team Building, Customer Development, Game Plan, Bootstrapping, Branding, Marketing PR and Social Media, Art of the Pitch, Financial Modelling and Intellectual Property Laws.
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GERMANY: Boosting Women's Careers in Culture and the Media
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Only a third of all German museums and 22 percent of the country's theaters are directed by women. Even though over 50 percent of art students are female, less than 20 percent of them are on show in galleries. Women working in cultural fields earn on average 24 percent less than their male colleagues, according to data comparing people covered by Germany's special insurance for artists, known as the Künstlersozialversicherung.
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SINGAPORE: Women in Reinsurance in Career Mentoring Initiative
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The Singapore Reinsurers' Association's Women-in-Reinsurance (WiRE) Sub-Committee has launched its first mentoring initiative - "Mentoring on the Move", a speed coaching and networking session sponsored by Aon Benfield Asia, with 12 senior executives serving as Mentors to reinsurance practitioners seeking career guidance and inspiration.
The event, held on 11 July, attracted 36 participants from 20 insurance/reinsurance companies who were divided into small groups and given 15 minutes to discuss a career issue or challenge with a Mentor, before moving on to the next Mentor. Those mentored included men and women.
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FIJI: Women Business Leaders Empowered
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Elevating women to leadership and board room positions was the purpose of a training programme held last week in Fiji.
Funded by Australia and New Zealand and supported by the Asian Development Bank, the Women in Leadership Programme was developed by the South Pacific Stock Exchange.
The programme's designer, Professor Vijaya Nagarajan, who devised similar workshops in Tonga, says creating female captains of industry requires different interventions in each country.
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Verizon, NIACC offer STEM Summer Camp for North Iowa Middle-Schoolers
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MASON CITY | Verizon Innovative Learning and North Iowa Area Community College have teamed up to offer hands-on workshops in science, technology, engineering and math for young area girls this summer.
The three-week summer camp, which runs through July 28 at NIACC, is the first launched by Verizon Innovative Learning to address the need for more girls, especially those in rural America, to be prepared for STEM careers of the future.
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They're Learning STEM Skills by Dancing to Destiny’s Child, and the Results Are Great
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Toussaint, a mechanical engineering graduate from MIT, starts STEM From Dance, a program for high school girls that merges the local culture of dance and music with a future in learning complex science and technology concepts.
“Students who would be a natural fit for, say, a career as a coder don’t necessarily know that until they are introduced to it,” Toussaint says. “Through dance, we’re attracting them to a different world that they wouldn’t otherwise opt-in themselves.”
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Vertex Awards Two First-Generation College Students Full Scholarships to any University of Massachusetts
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Boston Public High School Students Hannah Mei and Sayed Shah Receive Vertex Science Leaders Scholarship to Pursue STEM Degrees at UMass
Vertex, Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the University of Massachusetts today announced the recipients of the annual Vertex Science Leaders Scholarship, a four-year, full-ride scholarship to pursue an education in Science, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) at any University of Massachusetts campus. The scholarship is part of a broad STEM education program established by Vertex to equip students for careers in STEM through hands-on learning and mentoring opportunities.
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Book Review - Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
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In Lab Girl, Jahren describes her early inspirations “playing” in her father’s lab, chronicles her intensely loyal friendship with her lab partner, and speaks candidly about her career highs and lows. Throughout, she pauses to admire the intricate wonders of botany, and I find it refreshing that through the many mundane elements we all find in our careers—the paperwork, the politics—Hope persists in her unparalleled love of discovering new aspects of botany. She addresses the challenges of being a woman in the academy and, after securing the freedom that comes with tenure, speaks out concerning systematic (and often unspoken) biases in the academic system.
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Student-Driven Series Brings Science to the Masses
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Streaming Science is a student-driven science literacy program that highlights the work of scientists conducting critical agricultural and environmental research in Nebraska labs and landscapes. Through a series of courses and hands-on experiences, students majoring or minoring in agricultural and environmental sciences communication produce photo essays, videos, podcasts and online field trips.
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Largest Christian University in Texas Launches 22 New Diversity Efforts in Span of One Year
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Baylor University, the largest Christian college in Texas, has unveiled 22 new diversity efforts over the last year, including a “Diversity 101” faculty and staff training, a concerted effort to hire more scholars of color, student workshops on “cultural humility,” and much more.
The university, affiliated with the Baptist church and currently enrolling some 14,000 undergraduates, rolled out a webpage last summer dedicated to its diversity efforts and put up a “diversity commitment video.”
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Maryam Mirzakhani, The First Woman To Win The Nobel Prize Of Math, Dies At 40
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Maryam Mirzakhani, known for her outstanding mathematics skills and the recipient of the highest mathematics honor, passed away on Friday after a long battle with breast cancer. Stanford University, the institution she was a professor at, stated in a press release: "Maryam was a brilliant mathematical theorist, and also a humble person who accepted honors only with the hope that it might encourage others to follow her path."
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Commentary: Capital Budget Standoff Delaying Work Across State
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Caught up in the legislative impasse is a project to build a Science, Engineering, Technology building at Edmonds Community College. This project would help prepare Snohomish County’s growing population for high-demand occupations and house programs such as engineering, nursing, math, chemistry and physics.
It’s no wonder the project is one of the top priorities for Washington’s community and technical college system. EdCC plays a key role in providing STEM education and employee training for the growing high-tech, industrial and health services economy of the North I-5 corridor.
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On Mentoring: A Brain to Pick, an Ear to Listen, and a Push in the Right Direction
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Having women mentors is extremely important to me because they hold rare but priceless viewpoints. While many will argue that it is not necessary to have mentors of your same gender, I believe it is vital to be able to have mentors who can provide advice on relatable experiences and impart knowledge to fellows who can appreciate it to the fullest potential. Having other women in cardiology as mentors is something that I value because they not only understand the path I’m embarking on, but also are fighting along with me on the forefront for equality in the field. Today, there are six women with primary academic appointments in Case Western Reserve University's (CWRU) department of chemistry, and Barkley is the department chair. The fact that hiring a woman in chemistry is no longer headline material is due, in part, to a pioneering US programme called ACES (Academic Careers in Engineering & Science).
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Female Surgeons Making Inroads In Male-Dominated Operating Rooms
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Flexible work schedules and hiring more surgeons to ease the on-call burden has helped to lure more women to the trauma surgical team, said Bridgeport Hospital's chief medical officer, Dr. Michael Ivy, a trauma surgeon.
Hospitals statewide have launched a number of initiatives to help boost the ranks of women surgeons. There's been progress, but gaps persist.
In Connecticut, the percentage of female surgeons has grown slightly in recent years, from 23 percent in 2007 to 28 percent in 2013.
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Women in Tech Break Barriers, Mentor Others
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“The more women that there are in this field, the better it is for everyone else,” Dasu said.
When Dasu mentors someone, she said that she gets something out of it too. Whenever she talks to a new graduate, they always have an incredible amount of enthusiasm that, in turn, helps fuel her own work. She has heard many people say that they are discouraged from entering engineering because it’s not set up for their success; she feels that is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Nine Women In STEM Share The Challenges They've Faced In A Male-Dominated Field
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Research Offers New Hope for Gender Equity in STEM Fields
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One explanation for the gender gap in STEM is that women are more drawn to care-oriented and humanistic fields rather than technical and scientific disciplines. But, the researchers write, "As a new social phenomenon, the environmental movement enables fields to emerge outside of existing paradigms – for example, being simultaneously care-oriented and technical, or both humanistic and scientific – and therefore transcend traditional gender divisions."
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I Never Thought I Wanted a Female 'Doctor Who' – Until I Got One
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Of course I wanted to push the boundaries of the roles woman actors could play but I saw little connection between that and my long-standing campaign to attract more girls and women into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). An engineer for 20 years before coming into parliament, ending the entrenched gender disparity in Stem disciplines – only 9 per cent of professional engineers are women – has long been a personal priority. Not only as a matter of social justice, but to give our economy better access to the skills it so desperately needs and make tech more balanced, more humane, more representative.
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In a recent Gallup study, only 11 percent of corporate executives perceived that college graduates had the skills they were looking for. How can we better prepare the next generation for the jobs of tomorrow?
In her new book, Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America (Taylor and Francis: March 28, 2017) mentoring expert Patty empowers professionals – whether they are bankers, lawyers, architects, accountants, engineers, IT specialists or artists – to bring their real-world experience and her project based mentoring model into the classroom.
Compelling and insightful, the book reveals how professionals can embark on a journey to transform lives, mentoring one student at a time.
“You have made a difference in the lives of these kids, and most likely you have made a difference in the lives of their kids as well. They have grabbed hold of your light, because they feel your encouragement and kindness, and maybe because they had no other. Thank you for your important leadership in this role.”
— Chris Gardener, Author of The Pursuit of Happyness, 2010 NFTE Dare to Dream speech
For more information visit www.teachtowork.com
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