Below is an excerpt from Cristal Glangchai’s new book, Venture Girls: Raising Girls to be Tomorrow’s Leaders, in which Glangchai offers a unique solution to raising girls who have a well-developed entrepreneurial mind-set. Our brains are filled with neural...
Women currently hold less than 25% of STEM careers, so it’s almost a reflex to categorize STEM as a “career field for men.” But why—after years of progressive strides for women—are there so few of us working in STEM industries? Partly, it’s a...
“The problem isn’t that 13-year-old girls aren’t interested in computers. The problem is that 90% of our schools don’t even teach computer science” By Hadi Partovi (Co-founder, Code.org) The Twittersphere erupted last week over the question of whether the...
Many young girls may not see themselves as technical but they do love their smartphones. Let’s leverage that fact, suggests one girl geek. By Sookie Lioncourt (Writer, Little Miss Geek) Many of us are under the notion that technology, whether in the form of...
20% of women with math and science degrees work in a related field. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Girls are smarter than boys, the infographic below states. Studies show that at an early age, girls are smarter than boys. But girls...