News & Views Georgia Chenevix-Trench wins key award for breast cancer research Professor Georgia Chenevix-Trench wins 2022 GSK Award for Research Excellence for mapping the genetics of breast, ovarian and other cancers.
News & Views Meet the 60 women named Superstars of STEM in 2022 The 60 women STEM stars of the program Superstars of STEM were just announced and the field is incredibly impressive.
News & Views New initiative will help primary school girls imagine themselves in STEM careers Future You, an initiative of Women in STEM Ambassador Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, is an online resource. aimed at primary school kids.
News & Views 16 STEM champions lead $41.2 million Elevate: Boosting Women in STEM program Sixteen industry representatives have been appointed to lead an Advisory Group to promote more women into STEM.
News & Views High school girls need to know engineering is an enviable career We need to encourage school girls to consider careers in STEM, engineering in particular, writes Dr Mahdokht Shaibani.
News & Views Could a national body for ‘Scientists with Disabilities’ level the playing field? The number of scientists in work with disabilities is still inordinately low, with statistics showing a mere two per cent.
News & Views Elon Musk’s joke about ‘TITS’ won’t help tech’s problems with women Elon Musk has highlighted just how much of a boys’ club the tech industry still is, after he made a joke about starting a university called ‘TITS’.
News & Views Is Australia’s largest medical research funding body doing enough to retain women in STEMM? Recent funding outcomes from the Australian government’s largest medical research funding body demonstrate sustained gender bias in funding allocations, contributing to the loss of women from careers in STEMM
News & Views Telstra Health announces 2021 Women’s Digital Health awards program Telstra Health announces 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Health awards program to recognise, and celebrate women working in digital health across Australia.
News & Views When will medical schools accept a student like me, someone with a disability? Jerusha Mather is a PhD student at Victoria University and a a leading advocate for medical students with disabilities.
Business How Anh Nguyen is living the ‘uncommon’ life: Passion, winemaking and innovating on sustainable farming Anh Nguyen is the founder of Torch Bearer Wines in Tasmania, using the winemakeing business to demonstrate sustinable winemaking techniques.
News & Views It’s not lack of confidence that’s holding back women in STEM Women enrolled in STEM courses are often more confident than men, but it hasn’t translated into later career success.