In This Issue:
- MWM TownHall
- Save the Date
- MWM Global News
- MWM Events & Calendar
- Women in STEM News
- Resources / Awards
- Engage with MWM!
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Million Women Mentor Events & Calendar:
December 4
Million Women Mentors Town Hall:
State Partners Update to the Nation
Click here to RSVPJanuary 2015
National Mentoring MonthJanuary 8
MWM One Year AnniversaryJanuary 13
Leadership Council Meeting
March 8 & 9
International MWM Announcements
March 23 - 27
MWM States Week
March 23
Leadership Council Meeting
March 24
MWM Conference and Recognition Day
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Women in STEM
Resources/Awards:
Campaign for Science and Engineering
Improving Diversity in STEM
Pledge To Mentor
Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Rolls Out Leadership AwardsSeries of leadership awards to recognize the leaders advancing opportunities for women in the building industry
Women in STEM:
Realizing the Potential
This white paper will give you credible insight and facts for your use. This key document was developed with our lead technology partner TCS.
Action Guide and Toolkit
Million Women Mentors
100 Women Leaders in STEM
In celebration of women role models in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), STEMconnector™ published in hard copy and online its inaugural
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100 Diverse Leaders in STEM
Access HERE
Teach Thought
40 Important STEM Resources For Women
Access HERE Office of Science and Technology Policy
Women in STEM: Fact sheets & Reports
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How to find a Mentee?
STEM Mentoring
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When Talmesha Richards graduated with her Ph.D. in cellular and molecular medicine from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine two years ago, she felt a personal obligation to encourage other girls to pursue a career in science, technology, engineering or math. "I know the power of a mentor. I'm a testimony to it," says the 33-year-old who now works as a director of project partnerships for STEMconnector, an organization that connects corporations with community organizations to invest in STEM training. Richards can recall mentors as early as 3rd and 8th grades who helped encourage her in math and science.
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Engage With The Million Women Mentors Movement!
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Million Women Mentors Town Hall:
State Partners Update to the Nation
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Million Women Mentors State Partners TownHall to the Nation
December 4th
2:00-3:00 pm EST
Join the Million Women Mentors team and several key leaders in the State Initiatives while we do a "deep dive" into our state initiatives including sharing best practices, reporting on success, and hearing from several key partners of the movement!
Featured Speaker: Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey of Tennessee
The Honorable Ron Ramsey, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Tennessee has been influential in supporting the Million Women Mentors Tennessee state initiative. The State of Tennessee has pledged 10,000 mentors and has a robust strategy to advance girls and young women in STEM. According to the Lt Governor,
"I am proud to support the Million Women Mentors initiative in our state and look forward to the positive results it will bring. With evidence showing a lack of women and girls entering STEM programs and careers, it is more important than ever to translate strong STEM outreach and advocacy into action. I encourage the people of Tennessee, corporations and STEM-serving organizations to support MWM by taking the 'pledge-to-mentor'." Click here to read more about the Honorable Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey.
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Leveraging Mentoring to Build the STEM Pipeline
As more and more companies leverage mentoring to generate youth interest in STEM careers, the 2015 National Mentoring Summit will once again serve as an invaluable resource for sharing, learning and networking for corporate attendees engaged in youth mentoring. The Corporate & Philanthropic Track at the National Mentoring Summit is open to private sector professionals and individuals representing philanthropic investors. It is especially valuable for those focused on workforce development, corporate social responsibility, social impact, employee volunteerism and human resources. Corporate and philanthropic support and engagement in quality youth mentoring is a critical asset in expanding the mentoring effect to strengthen our communities and build the future workforce to support a STEM economy. This is your opportunity to enhance the great work you are doing! The 2015 National Mentoring Summit will take place January 28-30, 2015 at the Renaissance Washington, DC, Downtown. Check out the details and register today.
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 Saudi Arabia's first all-female BPO center opens in Riyadh.3,000 Jobs Lined Up For Saudi Women at Outsourcing Center (Arab News) The first all-female business process outsourcing (BPO) service center in the Kingdom, which was inaugurated in Riyadh on Sunday, will aim to provide 3,000 local jobs to Saudi women in the next three years in line with nationalization efforts. The BPO center was jointly opened by Saudi Aramco, General Electric (GE) and Indian IT services company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Supported by the Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF), the center has begun operating with around 300 employees that have been trained in communication and presentation skills, corporate etiquette, global culture and basic computer programs, such as Microsoft Office and Excel. About 100 of these new employees are fresh graduates, while the rest have two to three years of experience. Fresh graduates were selected from educational institutions in the Saudi capital, including Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University, the largest university for women in the world. |
Women in STEM
Across the entire country women and young girls are participating in programs that expose them to STEM careers. Through mentoring, our partners and top corporations are working to increase their interest and passion in STEM fields.
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Just one in seven engineers are female, only 27% of all computer science jobs are held by women, and "women have seen no employment growth in STEM jobs since 2000" reports Forbes. Women who work in the fields of [STEM] and those who campaign for higher numbers of women in these fields, think they have some solutions to this growing problem. "To get more girls in STEM let's go for collective action..." says Julie Kantor, Chief Partnership Officer at Million Women Mentors. "Of 368,000 high school girls who want to pursue STEM only 4% said they had a mentor encouraging them. Commit to mentoring a girl or young woman in STEM skills. Or offer an internship with a designated mentor at your company.
A lot of attention has been given to increasing the number of women in computer science, but despite numerous efforts the presence of female students in computer science programs is still far below the 50 percent equilibrium. In the department where I teach just about 10 percent of the students are women, and things aren't much better at most other institutes of higher education. In fact, women representation in computer science programs is significantly worse than it was in the 1980's, when about one third of the students were women. One of the reasons is the way academic institutes approach STEM education, and computer science in particular.
Five fifth-graders from Kent Middle School sat side-by-side, each in front of a computer screen and creating code for computer games. While taking part in the after-school Code Club in Greenbrae, one of them was designing a game that allows the user to put different kinds of facial hair on a person's face. Two of them were designing mazes, one was customizing a Floppy Bird game, and the other was assembling an animated choir of minions - characters from the movie, "Despicable Me" - that could sing and play musical instruments. It's an increasingly common scene in Marin, as Code Club - started a year ago by Mill Valley software designer Douglas Tarr - continues to draw in more grade-school children interested in creating computer and video game programs.
GPA System Could Lead to Lower Marks for Women in STEM (Times Higher Education)Many female scientists would leave university with lower marks if universities were to adopt the degree classification system used in the US, analysis suggests. Some 19 universities are currently taking part in a Higher Education Academy pilot to see if a grade point average system could replace - or run alongside - the honours degree classification system. The two-year pilot, the results of which will be published by July 2015, follows criticisms that the existing system is "broken" because it fails to distinguish between different levels of achievement (68 per cent of graduates received a 2:1 or better in 2012-13) and that it creates unfair "cliff edges" for those who narrowly miss out on a classification. Nova Southeastern University Gets $7M in STEM Grants (NBC Miami) Nova Southeastern University is getting $7 million in grants to help Hispanic and other minority students who are pursuing high-demand STEM related programs and careers. The Title V grants from the U.S. Department of Education will help increase the number of Hispanic and other students pursuing degrees in the STEM fields and prepare them for careers in these growing sectors and post-baccalaureate computer science-related degrees. U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will join NOVA school administrators to discuss the grants at a press conference Monday.
Marie Planchard (Director of Education Community, SolidWorks at Dassault Systemes): The Shortage Of Women In STEM Explained (Fast Co.Exist)Why is there such a shortage of qualified women in the U.S. pursuing engineering or other STEM fields? Research shows women decide to become involved in STEM or related fields very early on, at around one year old to 18 months, when we begin playing with toys. According to studies commissioned by Microsoft, male students are more likely to pursue STEM because they have always enjoyed games and toys that are focused on their chosen subject area. In North America, adults make decisions about which toys we promote to children.
Pitt working to attract female engineering doctoral students (The Pitt News)
After the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) determined Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering to be the U.S. university with the highest percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to women in engineering from 2010 to 2011, the school has dropped below the top 20 in the last two years. Gerald Holder, U.S. Steel Dean of Engineering at Swanson, said this year the school dropped to less than 30 percent of doctoral degrees awarded to women because so many women who graduated in the previous few years haven't been replaced by new female students. Alexandria McCuien (Senior Specialist- Applications Developer, AT&T): Encourage -- Don't Discourage -- STEM Dreams (HuffPost ImpactX) Eighteen years ago, I was a young girl who'd rather solve a math equation than go to recess. Today, I'm a woman who'd prefer to "crack a code" than go shopping. I'm where I am today because my family, friends and teachers nurtured my interests. I was never discouraged. I was encouraged every step of the way. When I was in middle school, I participated in after-school programs that exposed me to everything from computer skills to dancing skills. Having the opportunity to participate in those programs helped me understand what I wanted to be when I grew up. And my family, friends and teachers kept encouraging me. When I was a freshman in high school, I attended an academic summer camp at Southern Illinois University -- Edwardsville where I learned the basics of electrical, mechanical, computer, and chemical engineering. The Female Pioneers Who Changed STEM Forever (The Atlantic) Twenty-year-old Rosalyn Sussman cut a steely, solitary figure in September 1941 as she started her doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. "I was the first woman to have a graduate assistantship in physics there since 1917," she recounted to biographer Eugene Straus. She was the only female faculty member among 400, and there were no women's bathrooms in the lab facilities-a major inconvenience, especially during the many nights she spent sleeping on the floor of the lab. Despite her confidence and persistence, even Rosalyn couldn't have predicted that she would graduate several semesters early, make the jump to medicine, develop a revolutionary technique in the field of endocrinology, and win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1977.
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