science
The percentage of science degrees that are earned by women
What is 45%?
the percentage of women in the commuting industry
What is 33%?
The percent of women pursue degrees in engineering
What is 20%?
The percent of women that teach math
What is 53%?
The microbiologist whose research on bacteria in raw milk led to the widespread pasteurization of milk
Who is Alice Evans?
A pioneer of atomic research and her joint research helped lead to the discovery of uranium fission, which revolutionized nuclear physics
Who is Lise Meitner?
The pioneer in developing computer technology that was used to help devise the first commercial electronic computer and designed a standardized system of computer languages for the US Navy
Who is Grace Hopper?
The type of engineering has the highest representation of women
What is Chemical engineering?
The theorem that was named after Emmy Noether
What is Noether's Theorem?
Founded the American Red Cross Nursing Service and allowed for over 20,000 U.S. nurses to enlist overseas duty during WWI
Who is Jane Delano?
The first woman and only person to win two Nobel peace prizes for two different fields of science
Who is Marie Curie?
The first computer programmer that wrote the first algorithm for a machine that laid the foundation for modern computing
Who is Ada Lovelace?
The first black woman to work for NASA as an engineer in 1958
Who was Mary Jackson?
Had the movie “Hidden Figures” based on her computational career with NASA
Who is Katherine Johnson?
A biochemist that won the 1947 Nobel Prize for discovering the catalytic conversion of glycogen and how the body uses and stores energy
Who is Gerty Cori?
Helped develop the algorithm that created the first image of a black hole
Who is Katie Bouman?
A British IT pioneer and entrepreneur who founded Freelance Programmers in 1962, a software company primarily employing women
Who is Stephanie Shirley?
The university did the first two women to receive engineering degrees graduate from in 1876 and 1894
What is The University of California, Berkeley?
Was nicknamed NASA’s “human supercomputer” for her computational skills
Who is Dorothy Vaughn?
The cancer researcher that revolutionized chemotherapy techniques and became the highest-ranking Black woman at a U.S. medical school in the 1960s
Who is Dr. Jane Cooke Wright?
The American physicist that also helped contribute to the creation of the atomic weapon as a part of the atomic research program known as the Manhattan Project
Who is Leona Woods Marshall Libby?
Google’s first female engineer that played key roles in designing Google’s search interface and user experience during its early years & later becomes the CEO of Yahoo! from 2012-2017
Who is Marissa Mayer?
The difference in pay between women and men in engineering globally (Go by dollar amount ex. Women get $1.50 men get $1.30, difference of $.20)
What is $.03?
Wrote the first calculus textbook in 1748
Who is Maria Gaetana Agnesi?
The woman that discovered DNA by her work in X-ray crystallography, which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?