Mugs and Microaggressions

Mugs and Microaggressions

Twelve years ago, I (Jen) started my “dream job” teaching biology at a small liberal arts college. I wanted to be a professor ever since I took my first undergraduate genetics class with the professor who became my undergraduate mentor. She was...
Women in STEM: We Fixed that Problem, Right?

Women in STEM: We Fixed that Problem, Right?

While men still receive a higher proportion of doctoral degrees across all scientific and engineering fields (53.8%, versus 46.2% for women ), this gap has narrowed since the mid-1980s. (There was a 31.4% gap in 1985.) In some fields, such as the biological,...