Through its Women in Science (WiS) Initiative, UNESCO is committed to serving as a continental coordination platform that ...

In this Sept. 29, 2015, photo, Aishwarya Mandyam, left, and her twin sister, Karishma Mandyam, write on an "idea board" for an upcoming hack-athon in the 3,100-square-foot home they share rent-free ...

This Breakthrough Women in Science and Medicine program spotlights the impact of two-time cancer survivor and breast cancer expert Lillie Shockney. Lillie has dedicated her life to breaking down ...

In what can be a lonely field for women even during the best of times, Marisol Hernández’s first year in engineering school coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic, when classes were held remotely rather ...

The conversation on women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has, for too long, been framed around inclusion. It is time to reframe it around power, leadership and agency. The ...

Women are still in the minority in the laboratories. National Cancer Institute/Unsplash, CC BY-SA There were around 8 billion human beings in 2022, 50% of them women. Although there are as many women ...

Satyendra Nath Bose didn’t just make huge contributions to quantum science, he also welcomed women into what was at the time a male-dominated field. Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta and Rupamanjari Ghosh discuss ...

From Kevlar to windshield wipers, pulsars to dark matter and radioactivity, women are responsible for countless scientific discoveries and inventions that changed the world — and yet, many of them ...

With additional reporting by Meghan Herbst. Of all the geologists, few were more renowned than the one Willenbring had gone to Boston to study under: 37-year-old David Marchant. Marchant, a scruffy ...

Yerka’s lab is dedicated to developing improved hybrid sorghum varieties through plant breeding research. Photo by Melinda Yerka. Yerka and her research team have unveiled 200 sorghum varieties that ...

WISE-SCOPE FELLOWSHIP (Women In Science and Engineering-Societal Challenges with Opportunities Fellowship) details including ...