A program designed to get Girl Scouts involved in citizen science motivated them to tackle scientific or environmental problems in their own communities, researchers report. The findings demonstrate ...

Children as young as age 6 develop ideas that girls are less interested than boys in computer science and engineering—stereotypes that can extend into the late teens and contribute to a gender gap in ...

CBS Colorado celebrates Girls & Science throughout the month of March. Studies show that as girls enter their teenage years, confidence declines in their ability to do well in the STEM fields. That is ...

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On Monday, girls attending Wesleyan University and Middletown Public School’s Girls in Science camp were asked to draw a scientist. Many drew Albert Einstein or mad scientists sporting smoking beakers ...

Greater exposure to high-achieving boys in high school negatively impacts girls’ science and math grades, according to a new working paper distributed by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It ...

Last year, Girl Scouts introduced space science badges, developed by the SETI Institute in partnership with GSUSA, for Daisies, Brownies, and Junior Girl Scouts. In just one year, more than 68,000 ...

CBS Colorado is partnered with Ping Identity, Girls Inc of Metro Denver, DaVita, Xcel Energy, and Denver Health for a month-long celebration of Girls & Science. It's an exploration of all the ...

Last month, the Australian Academy of Science published a report showing the COVID-19 pandemic would disproportionately affect women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) ...

STEM workers play a vital role in America’s innovative and global competitiveness, and the need to cultivate a talented STEM workforce has never been greater. One area ripe for growth is women in STEM ...

How many girls were in your science and math classes? The answer depends on when you were in school, of course because the share of girls studying science, technology, engineering, and math has ...