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.
News & Views Girls are just as good at STEM subjects as boys, so why are they still not choosing it? If the knowledge and enthusiasm are there, why are university places and careers for women in STEM remaining stagnant?
Partner Content ‘We need different people & skills working together’: Women in STEM on the lessons from an unprecedented year In Australia, a diversity of experts leading across health data and STEM; many of whom have contributed to our navigation of the pandemic.