"Women in Science Wednesday"
Each and every day—every month, every year—women are making discoveries, breaking barriers, and changing the world through their achievements. This month, of course, we are celebrating “Women in STEM” –honoring scientists whose accomplishments are a source of inspiration, and whose work has paved the way or is paving the way for current and future innovations.
It’s Friday! If you’re in the northeast, raise a glass to today’s gorgeous weather (it was 72 degrees, blue skies, and sunny in Piscataway / New Brunswick, New Jersey, after weeks of snow). Next, let’s toast something even better: a robust job market and increasingly higher wages, both of which—according to sources including the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Emsi (a go-to source for labor and workforce data), and the U.S.
These days, the engineering and tech sectors offer some of the fastest growing and highest-paying jobs of any industry. Yet women and men in these fields do not benefit equally: the entry-level salary for a woman in engineering or tech is $4,000 less than that of a man with identical (and sometimes lesser) credentials and skills. Why does this wage gap exist?
A little more than a year ago, as machine-learning and deep-learning technologies continued to rapidly advance, many workers had significant—and legitimate—concerns that the increasing application of artificial intelligence (AI) in so many fields would lead to widespread job obsolescence.
March 3, 2021: Women to Watch!
March 2, 2021: Unseen Innovators - STEM Superwomen!
It's March 1st - Women's History Month!
On Friday, February 26, 2021, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel for Rutgers Professional Science Master's Program on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as it relates to STEM professionals.
As February is Black History Month, it is important to me that we share the stories of Black professionals specifically. The challenges that Black employees face in the workplace are seldom heard. We had a dynamic conversation about how it feels to constantly be the "other.”
