Astronaut Barbie has landed, and it’s one giant leap for women in STEM
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Life
NASA is finally ready to send the first woman to the moon – 50 years after the Apollo mission
It'll be the first step in getting people to Mars.
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- Sarah Shaffi
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Life
Women at the very top of their game in tech are being called “Tinkerbell”
“They all clapped and said, ‘Tinkerbell!’”
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- Hollie Richardson
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Life
Three young women on reaching for the stars, and finding space
Inspiration for any woman wanting to go to space.
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- Richard Ginger
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Life
Alexa: Tell me why artificial intelligence is sexist
New research shows that virtual assistants reinforce gender bias
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- Hollie Richardson
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- Moya Crockett
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Why visible role models are so important for black women in STEM
New research highlights the inspiring role played by black female scientists.
Visible Women
Meet Dr Katie Bouman, the 29-year-old who made that black hole photo possible
“Congratulations and thank you for your enormous contribution to the advancments of science and mankind.”
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- Moya Crockett
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People
This woman has become the first to win a major maths prize
Karen Uhlenbeck is a mathematician on a mission.
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- Sarah Shaffi
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Careers
How love led this scientist to pursue a life-saving career path
“To be honest, I stayed because of my supervisor”
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- Hannah Keegan
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Life
Why this tweet about two laptops has sparked gender bias fury on Twitter
“If anyone is curious as to why women feel unwelcome in tech, check it out.”
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- Susan Devaney
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Visible Women
Meet the entrepreneur getting 18,000 books about inspiring women into schools
Stylist’s Woman of the Week is Edwina Dunn, founder of The Female Lead.
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- Moya Crockett
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Visible Women
Ada Lovelace’s most inspiring quotes about science, confidence and hard work
9 October is Ada Lovelace Day, celebrating the contributions of women in STEM.
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- Moya Crockett
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- Moya Crockett
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Meet the physicist on a mission to change perceptions of women in science
Dr Jess Wade writes Wikipedia biographies of female scientists – and wants to get a book debunking anti-women science into every UK state school
Life
Female pilot has the best comeback to passenger's sexist comments
Poignant with a side of badassery
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- Megan Murray
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Visible Women
How Twitter solved the mystery of the black woman scientist in an old photo
People thought that Sheila Minor was ‘support staff’ – but she was so much more.
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- Moya Crockett
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Life
How women are being priced out of STEM careers
The government are proposing a new fees system that threatens to price women in science even further out
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- Moya Lothian-McLean
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Visible Women
Meet the woman who teaches Amazon Alexa how to understand humans
Machine learning scientist Catherine Breslin is Stylist’s Woman of the Week.
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- Hannah Keegan
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Visible Women
NASA engineers genuinely thought women astronauts would need make-up in space
So they made them these handy space make-up kits!
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- Moya Crockett
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Books
The new Little Miss is the playground feminist muse we've all been waiting for
Another small step forward for womankind
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- Anna Brech
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- Amy Swales
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All-girl robotics team denied American visas (but the robot is fine)
The six girls from Afghanistan will have to watch their invention compete via video link