STEMinists
This person was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.
Who is Marie Curie?
What type of macromolecule is cellulose?
The number of zeros in a quintillion.
What is 18?
These doctors focus on the heart.
What is a cardiologist?
This category of STEM jobs is 75% comprised of women.
What is healthcare?
This woman and her team were the first to discover nuclear fission of Uranium.
Who is Lise Meitner?
Most common blood type.
What is O positive?
The next number in this series: 1, 3, 7, 15, 31
What is 63?
A malignant progressive disease in which the bone marrow and other blood-forming organs produce increased numbers of immature or abnormal leukocytes.
What is leukemia?
This category of STEM jobs is only 14% comprised of women.
What is engineering?
This woman spent 18 years studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda and had a film called “Gorillas in the Mist” made about her in 1988.
Who is Dian Fossey
What illness accounted for 40 percent of U. S. military casualties during World War I?
What is the flu?
Area of an equilateral triangle with a side length of 4.
What is 4 root 3?
He performed the first heart transplant in the world.
Who is Christiaan Barnard?
About what percent of women make up the science and engineering workforce?
What is 29%?
Dubbed “The Most Beautiful Woman in Films”, this famous actress helped develop a “Secret Communications System” to combat Nazis in World War II that later ended up being the basis of current Wi-Fi.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
What was the first genetically engineered organism?
What is tobacco?
The force acting on an object in free fall.
What is gravity?
What is Halitosis?
Of 100 female bachelor students, 12 graduate with a STEM major, but only ___ continue to work in STEM fields 10 years after graduation.
What is 3?
This woman was the first known carrier of typhoid and infected 51 people.
Who is Typhoid Mary/Mary Mallon?
Why isn’t there an Element 0, with a nucleus of pure neutrons?
What is without protons to stabilize them, neutrons have a half-life of 25 minutes and would quickly decay?
The non-binary equivalent of the binary number 1001101.
What is 76?
This is the leading cause of death in the United States.
What is heart disease?
The wage gap between women and men is much smaller in STEM occupations than other occupations. In STEM fields, women earn $___ for every $1 earned by men, compared to $0.77 for other fields.
What is $0.92?