- 1. NASA Renames Headquarters After First Black Woman Engineer, Mary W. Jackson
- (Feminism)
- ... Figures Way,’ a reminder that Mary is one of many incredible and talented professionals in NASA’s history who contributed to this agency’s success.” Mary W. Jackson was NASA’s first Black female engineer ...
- Created on 25 June 2020
- 2. The Four Black NASA Women Who Inspired “Hidden Figures” Are Getting Congressional Gold Medals
- (Feminism)
- ... into the Senior Executive Service at Langley. Her work led to discoveries that "revolutionized aerodynamics design,” CNN reports. For 21 years, Jackson worked as NASA's first Black female engineer before ...
- Created on 13 November 2019
- 3. 11 New Books By Women To Read This Spring
- (Books)
- ... women have been largely left out of the history of computing. The irony is that “computer” originally referred to a human computer, usually female; mathematicians even once described machine labor as equivalent ...
- Created on 27 April 2018
- 4. 5 Need-To-Know Car Tips from A Woman Mechanic
- (Living)
- Patrice Banks (right) teaches a workshop While searching for a woman to work on her car in 2011, Patrice Banks discovered that less than two percent of mechanics are female. She decided to do something ...
- Created on 03 January 2018
- 5. 14 Books By Women To Make Your February A Little Brighter
- (Books)
- ... of black female beauty to the limits of self-care; from respectability politics to “ratchet feminism.” The vastness of a collection like this could be difficult to navigate, but the editors organize the ...
- Created on 06 February 2017
- 6. Save the Date - BUST Craftacular is coming back to World Maker Faire (NYC)!
- (DIY)
- ... will feature plenty of female makers for attendees to see in action, and hopefully inspire more young women to combine their love of both art and science. Just 1 in 4 STEM professionals today identify ...
- Created on 04 August 2016
- 7. The Scrappy Female Paleontologist Whose Life Inspired a Tongue Twister
- (Living)
- ... for another 57 years. Anning remains the pride of Lyme Regis, and people still go looking for their own fossils on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, now a World Heritage Site. Anning was selected by the female ...
- Created on 14 April 2016
- 8. How I Learned To Love Power Tools: BUST True Story
- (DIY)
- I began powder coating in 2013. In 2012 I began my jewelry line, Funhouse Labs. I found myself wanting to use brightly colored metal components in my jewelry. Body heat and skin oils eroded through ...
- Created on 06 April 2016
- 9. 10 Ferocious Female Pirates That Put the Arrr in Grrrl
- (Feminism)
- Historically women have been undereducated, financially dependent and generally oppressed by a patriarchal society, but these badass female pirates broke away from a society that treated them as weak ...
- Created on 18 March 2016
- 10. The Iconoclast Installation Artist You Need To Know About
- (Arts)
- When it comes to artists in India, Shilpa Gupta is largely regarded as an iconoclast of installation art. Her work has been showcased everywhere from New Delhi to New York, from Tokyo to Tel Aviv, from ...
- Created on 17 March 2016
- 11. Marvel Is Looking For Its Own Science-y Supergirl
- (Entertainment)
- ... and comics. Having been called out again and again for its male-dominated universe, Marvel is working to make visibility for women and girls more accessible. And while we won’t see a female led superhero ...
- Created on 16 March 2016
- 12. 12 Brilliant Female Mathematicians You Should Know
- (Feminism)
- ... major Russian female mathematician. She is responsible for important contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. Girlfriend was breaking down barriers every which way. She ...
- Created on 14 March 2016
- 13. 5 Women In Science You Need To Know About
- (Books)
- ... moon. "Women in Science celebrates the achievements of the intrepid women who have paved the way for the next generation of female engineers, biologists, mathematicians, doctors, astronauts, physicists, ...
- Created on 14 March 2016
- 14. Maryam Mirzakhani is the First Woman to Win the World's Top Math Awar
- (General)
- In more glass ceiling-breaking news, the Fields Award (which Buzzfeed describes as “the Nobel Prize equivalent in the mathematics world”) has been awarded to the first female ever! Maryam Mirzakhani, ...
- Created on 13 August 2014
- 15. Computer Programming: Women Did It First
- (Feminism)
- Women can’t do math? Child, please. Exhibit A: English mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose 197th birthday is being celebrated today with a Google Doodle, was the world’s first computer programmer. Ever. ...
- Created on 10 December 2012
