As a female engineer, no rx no rx I have confronted low self-confidence, self-doubt, and even the feeling that I didn’t truly belong or deserve my success because I was different from most of the people around me. Ruth Charney, online president-elect of the Association of Women in Mathematics and professor at Brandeis University, […]
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We previously discussed the issues surrounding attrition of women in STEM. If you are one of those focused, goal-oriented, tenacious women who figure out how to have it all and stay in their STEM field, chances are you are going to rise through the ranks and find yourself in a supervisory capacity at some point. […]
The STEM fields could benefit greatly from a more gender balanced ratio, as women bring their own unique perspective to the industry. Here are some examples! Karen Purcell
This is the third in a series of posts designed to shine the spotlight on one segment of the STEM career path. We have already discussed Science and Technology. Today our focus is on Engineering. When we think of engineers, we often limit our understanding to just those major and most common categories of engineers: […]
Balancing work and family can be challenging for any woman, but especially for a woman in a male-dominated field, such as the STEM fields. In this video I go over what I feel are the three things that are imperative to being successful in attaining work-life-family balance. Karen Purcell
Susan Fitzpatrick, president of the Association for Women in Science and vice president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, has observed that in the earliest stages of a woman’s STEM career, situations tend to be highly individual. “As long as you get into a good lab and they give you two feet of bench space,” […]
Finding a Mentor
In an earlier post I shared a list of programs that girls can get involved in to support their pursuits in STEM. Another powerful strategy to use is finding, keeping and relying on a mentor to guide you on your path. At an early age, if we feel like we aren’t getting the advice and […]
In our culture, there is a prevailing notion that boys are somehow inherently better at math than girls are. This dangerous assumption is at the core of the gender imbalance that exists in fields of study and work involving math, such as engineering. When most people, including educators, have a subconscious idea that math is […]
Please check out this video to understand the goal of my book, Unlocking Your Brilliance. Karen Purcell