Famous Women in STEM
Bias in Design and Medicine
"Michelle Obama" Event
Women you should Know
100

Memorialized in the film "Hidden Figures" for her work doing the mathematical calculations to get an astronaut into orbit around the Earth

Katherine Johnson

100

Because women have, on average, smaller hands these items tend to disadvantage women more than men

Pianos and cellphones

100

These are the 2 main types of connectivity mentioned during today's event

Mentorship and Advocacy

100

Pakistani activist for female education, the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and second Pakistani to ever receive a Nobel Prize.

Malala

200

The first person to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields

Marie Curie

200

Because the fact that women are on average shorter than men, was not included into the design of this item, women are 47% more likely to be more seriously injured while using this. 

Cars

200

Michelle Obama mentioned that this is an important part of growth that women need to learn to be ok with. 

Failure

200

First Woman to Serve on the Supreme Court

Sandra Day O'Connor

300

English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite

Rosalind Elsie Franklin

300

This "male disease" kills more women globally than any other single infectious disease. 

TB

300

A big challenge for women in the workplace mentioned during today's event

They are over-mentored and under-sponsored, we need to fight for women and underrepresented people to have a seat at the table

300

Invented Frequency Hopping which was the foundation for Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth

Hedy Lamarr

400

Credited for reducing the death rate from 42% to 2% as a visionary designer of hospital systems and pioneered the improvement of sanitation in working-class homes.

Florence Nightingale

400

Women are 50% more likely to be misdiagnosed for this disease because the symptoms most commonly associated with it mainly occur in men

Heart attacks

400

It's not only important to hire women and given them a chance, but you also have to do this

"Teach them how to play the game" Ensuring that they understand the unwritten rules in an organization so they are more likely to be successful

400

Become the first female self-made millionaire in the United States by developing her own line of hair care products specifically designed for African American hair

Sarah Breedlove / Madam C. J. Walker

500

Computer Scientist who developed the onboard flight software for NASA's Apollo program

Margaret Heafield Hamilton

500

Because women have been considered "smaller men with reproductive differences" they have historically been excluded from these items

Clinical Trials and Medical Textbooks

500

"if you have one hand holding a mask, you only have one had to work, so you have to let go of the mask so you can focus on the work" refers to this

Being able to be more authentically yourself and leaning into your past, struggles and open all of it

500

Known for writing the first computer algorithm

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace