We have heard many women’s stories of being in sexist environments, having to put up with domestic spheres, being taken advantage of, and many many more. Women have been fighting long and hard for equal opportunities and are why we have taken it upon ourselves to spread awareness of how important it is to empower other women and not to be in competition. We want our website to be a safe haven for women to come to, share their personal stories, be inspired by other women, and take advantage of opportunities (such as STEM) around them. We need to empower one another so we can take stand up against discrimination, social constructs, patriarchy, economic inequalities, etc.
Only 13% of women are engineers and only 26% of computer scienctists are women. These statistics have been drastically low for decades as women tend to stray
Over 200,000 women graduated from STEM fields in 2016 in comparison with just over 140,000 in 2009.
Only 1 out of 20 employed scientists and engineers are black women or Latinas.
Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was one of the first programers of the Harvard Mask I computer and a rear admirl for the United States Navy.
A nnie Easley (1933-2011) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. She helped developed and implemented code that led to the development of the battery’s used in hybrid cars.
Adele Goldberg (b. 1945) was a researcher at the Xero Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) and was the only women among the group of men who built the Smalltak-80 together. Smalltak-80 would later be implemented by Steve Jobs in his Apple development.
Katherine Johnson (1918-2020) was a NASA employee and who manually run the same equations through her desktop that the machine used to ensure that they were safe to go before take-off.