Category: Education

While increasing girls’ access to education and training is crucial to their empowerment and success, it’s often not enough. Young women are earning higher degrees than ever before and making up the majority of the classroom. However, they continue to Read More

Students and Professors: Where to Draw the Line Sexual harassment is rampant in colleges throughout America. It’s not just something happening between peers at parties. It often happens where the power dynamics are skewed such as with a professor or Read More

College offers the exciting opportunity to learn new things and meet new people, but the high cost of education can be burdensome. The rising cost of college has burdened students with an increasing amount of student loan debt upon graduation, even Read More

As a senior in college, preparing for graduation, I have been asked the question “So what comes next?” a nauseating amount of times. My education is set to expire, and I am expected to move onto “the real world” to Read More

All our lives, we’ve been told to follow our dreams. We’ve been told to do what we enjoy and dive headfirst into the pursuit of our passions. It’s great advice – unless you have no idea where your passions lie. Read More

During the 1960’s in America, software engineering was actually seen as “women’s work”. It wasn’t until men realized that it was actually a very difficult task and required a high level of skill that they began to systematically take over Read More

When I think of summer, I think about sunbathing in the rays of the hot July sun. My mind wanders off to the warm sands of the beach and afternoons spent curling up on a pool chair, reading magazines by Read More

If you google the phrase “women in STEM,” the first search results are links to infographics. Bright pink symbols explain how women are failing to move forward in rapidly-growing fields related to science, technology, engineering, and math. Women hold less Read More

I don’t remember my junior year in high school being nearly as fraught as my son’s. Trying to figure out the “right” balance of Advanced Placement courses and extracurricular activities. Determining his “passion” so that he can write the perfect Read More