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Land’s End Introduces New Science T-Shirts Just For Girls After one mom took the company to task, Land’s End has rolled out science-themed t-shirts for little girls. Finally, some NASA amid the pink-and-purple sparkles! Land’s End introduced the...

Land’s End Introduces New Science T-Shirts Just For Girls

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After one mom took the company to task, Land’s End has rolled out science-themed t-shirts for little girls. Finally, some NASA amid the pink-and-purple sparkles!

Land’s End introduced the shirts three weeks after a mom’s Facebook complaint drew attention to their measly offerings. The Huffington Post reports that Lisa Ryder’s daughter spotted science-themed t-shirts in the boys’ section of the catalog, only to discover they offered zilch for girls. 

The company responded quickly, launching the new additions on Facebook: “You asked, we listened.”

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Jul 31, 2014

The Smithsonian’s Awesome Vintage Images of Women In Science

Since 2009, the Smithsonian Archives has posted photographs showing women scientists and engineers at work. Here are some images from their archives.

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Anna Chao Pai, working on developmental genetics and cross-breeding special strains of mice.

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Anna “Vesse” Dahl, a Norwegian adventurer who made great contributions to research on atomic energy.

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Bertha Parker Pallan, one of the first female Native American archaeologists.

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Aviation expert and pilot Anesia Pinheiro Machado, the first Brazilian woman to make a cross-country flight.

Source: The Smithsonian 

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Feb 12, 2014
Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world — yet didn’t always end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Dr. Shirley Ann...

Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson

Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world — yet didn’t always end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, the first black woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics from MIT.

When she was four years old, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson told her mom she already knew what people would call her some day: “Shirley the Great.” She was right.

Dr. Jackson was born in Washington D.C. in 1946 and quickly developed a passion for science. Her father encouraged her interest, telling her to “aim for the stars so that you can reach the treetops and at least you’ll get off the ground.”

 In 1964 Dr. Jackson started her freshman year at MIT, where she was one of fewer than twenty African American students and the only one studying theoretical physics. She later told Science Magazine that men weren’t the only ones who made her feel alienated. “The irony is that the white girls weren’t particularly working with me, either," Dr. Jackson said. "I had to work alone and I went through a down period. But you have to decide you will persist in what you’re doing and that you won’t let people beat you down.” She didn’t. She soon became the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT in nuclear physics. 

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Jan 09, 2014
Shopping for a Girl? Consider Science and Engineering Toys via New York Times If you’re shopping for a girl, why not skip the doll aisle for toys that encourage science and engineering? That’s the message from a small group of toy makers who say...

Shopping for a Girl? Consider Science and Engineering Toys 

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If you’re shopping for a girl, why not skip the doll aisle for toys that encourage science and engineering?

That’s the message from a small group of toy makers who say they are frustrated that there are separate lists for girls’ toys and boys’ toys in the first place. They have been led by GoldieBlox, but others are sending that message. 

The American Association of University Women, for example, created a list of 16 gifts for girls of every age. The group’s list includes a “future scientist” onesie, computer engineer Barbie, Wikki Stix, an alternative-energy science kit, and “The Princess Knight,” a book about a princess who rescues herself (no prince required).

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Dec 03, 2013
Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Ellen Ochoa Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world — yet didn’t always end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Ellen Ochoa, the first...

Trailblazing Women You May Not Know (But Should): Ellen Ochoa

Each week, the Lean In tumblr will spotlight women who made a lasting mark on the world — yet didn’t always end up in the history books. This week we celebrate Ellen Ochoa, the first Latina astronaut. 

Ellen Ochoa was 11 when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon. Years later, she would become the first Latina to head into space – but she would never have believed that at the time. There were no female astronauts when she was growing up; at the University of San Diego, where she attended college, a professor told her to steer clear of engineering because the classes would be too difficult. "I never considered being an astronaut as an option because when I was growing up there were no female astronauts,“ she said. 

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Nov 07, 2013
"Women are underrepresented in [STEM] fields so [Marvel] is trying to encourage girls to study them more, because obviously there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be. And that’s really exciting because that’s exactly what you want with these kinds of movies. They’re big and they’re fun and if you can have a little bit of impact on a young girl seeing them and saying ‘wait, that’s possible too,’ then that would be really cool."
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Natalie Portman speaking about her role as Jane Foster in Thor: The Dark World 

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Nov 01, 2013
Two New Resources To Help Our Daughters Learn STEM Parents, check out these new child-friendly STEM resources, because the next Steve Jobs could be your daughter. Sesame Street’s Little Discoverers: This fall, Sesame Workshop launched Little...

Two New Resources To Help Our Daughters Learn STEM

Parents, check out these new child-friendly STEM resources, because the next Steve Jobs could be your daughter. 

Sesame Street’s Little Discoverers: This fall, Sesame Workshop launched Little Discoverers, a new digital destination for children and parents to engage in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). On the website, Elmo and Abby show littles ones how to have big fun with science, math, and more. 

This Robot Can Teach Programming To Your Five Year Old: When former Google executive Vikas Gupta had a daughter two years ago, he wanted to get her interested as early as possible in computer programming. The result? Play-i, two friendly robots named Bo and Yana that teach young kids to program through an iOS app. "Tech has to evolve to be accessible and fun,“ Vikas Gupta. Something we love? The robots were carefully designed and tested to appeal equally to boys and girls. 

(Source: Mashable, Photo Credit: Sesame Workshop and Play-i)

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Nov 01, 2013
PHOTOS: All 16 Nobel-Winning Women Scientists

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PHOTOS: All 16 Nobel-Winning Women Scientists

Of the 357 people awarded a Nobel in the science categories — Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economic Sciences — only 16 have been women.
“Men tend not to nominate them, and women don’t nominate themselves,” Liebert told NPR. “Women scientists have to be more assertive in seeking nominations. I think that’s a major issue. And I think men have to put women’s names into nomination, too.”

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Aug 30, 2013
"At the AGM where I got my medallion, I had one of our members come up to me and say that it was a disgrace that I was president of the Royal Society of Chemistry because as a female I should be at home bringing up my children."
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Professor Lesley Yellowlees, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Call to arms over sexism in science (BBC News) 

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Aug 09, 2013

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