Famous Scientists
World’s expert on chimpanzees.
Who is Dr. Jane Goodall?
Gerri M. Flickinger, CTO: green mermaid coffee.
What is Starbucks?
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, the mother of scientific management is best known for this electric device used to make things like cake and whipped cream.
What is electric hand mixer?
STEM field with lowest percentage (15%) of females.
What is engineering?
_______ stereotypes can prompt bias in evaluative judgments of women in male-dominated environments.
What is gender?
Her work on radioactivity made her the only woman to receive two Nobel prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
Marene Allison, CISO: brands this company is known for include Neutrogena, Aveeno, Tylenol, Lactaid, and Johnson.
What is Johnson & Johnson?
If you’re driving through rain, thank Mary Anderson for the manual and Charlotte Bridgwood for the electric version of this essential car part.
What are windshield wipers?
Women dominate 60% of ____ field of STEM workforce
What are social sciences?
Married women in STEM appear to have a disadvantage compared with married men in relation to tenure and promotion decisions only if the married women have _____.
What are children?
She was captured by Confederate forces after crossing enemy lines to treat wounded civilians, arrested as a spy, and the only female to ever receive the Medal of Honor.
Who is Mary Edwards Walker?
Swati Vauthrin, VP of Engineering: chances are, you’ve gone to this site to take a personality quiz on what type of bread you are.
What is Buzzfeed?
Ben and Jerry’s, Hagen Daaz, and Breyers should be thankful that Nancy Johnson invented this machine.
What is an ice cream maker?
Women make up 52% of the college educated workforce, but only ___% of STEM field.
What is 29?
For both middle school and college students, a _____ mindset protects girls and women from the influence of the stereotype that girls are not as good as boys at math.
What is growth?
“Mother of the internet” who developed STP, wrote a kids programming book for children as young as 3, and holds over 100 patents.
Who is Radia Perlman?
Gwynne Shotwell, president & COO: first private company to send a satellite into geostationary orbit.
What is SpaceX?
Marie Van Brittan Brown is the reason you feel safe in your house today. She created this device after increasing crime rates in the 1960s.
What is a home security system?
The main reason women with +8 years tech experience with senior roles contribute their success to determination, a sense of purpose, and this BlueCross value.
What is grit?
STEM careers, like biomedical engineering and environmental engineering, have greater success attracting women to the field because women are more likely to prefer work with a clear _____.
What is social purpose?
This committed pacifist became the “Mother of the atomic bomb” after her work done on nuclear fission was left unrecognized by a male colleague who took credit for her work.
Who is Lise Meitner?
Teresa Zielinski, CISO: company provides 30% of the world’s power including gas turbines and generators.
What is General Electric/GE?
Hedy Lamarr worked on frequency hopping technology which helped serve as the foundation to this type of communication---no cable necessary.
What is Wireless communication (wifi and Bluetooth)?
Women who stayed and succeeded in tech are x2 as likely to say that ____ groups are very important for work success compared to women who left.
What are peer?
Women in STEM fields can experience bias that negatively influences their progress and participation. Although instances of explicit bias may be decreasing, _____ bias continues.
What is implicit?