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08/20/2023

07/09/2023

Fact Friday: The gender pay gap isn’t just bad for women, but for our entire economy: Women are half the labor force and 2/3 are primary breadwinners.

When women get equal pay for equal work, everyone will benefit.

https://bit.ly/3ELXGET

07/03/2023

Leonie von Meusebach–Zesch became a dentist at nineteen in 1902, starting her career in San Francisco. Over the years, she worked in Arizona, where Leonie drove around in her Model T car, holding mobile clinics all over the state. Then, for fifteen years she worked in Alaska, where she at times commuted by airplane, once surviving a plane crash. And often to get around the state's interior to serve the local Inuit population and others, she traveled by dog sled in a custom sixteen-foot sled.

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Sources: Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame / Wikimedia Commons

06/23/2023

Fact Friday: On this International Women in Engineering Day, we're raising awareness about how women make up only 27% of the STEM workforce. Numerous studies find that gender bias is the biggest obstacle keeping college women from pursuing degrees and careers in STEM.​

Learn more: bit.ly/38BRrVW

06/23/2023

Happy International Women in Engineering Day. June 23,2023.
We hope the Incline students will consider Engineering as your future career. Lots of career paths, lots of doors will be open and great pay.

Per the Society of Women Engineers. 2022. Women in Engineering Fast Facts.

In the United States, women make up 14% of the engineering workforce (15% internationally). In 2020, 24% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering were earned by women, and women of color earned 10% of the total engineering degrees.

05/05/2023

04/25/2023

About your dues. Feel free to use. (From AAUW Social Media Strategy page)

04/16/2023

04/14/2023

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04/04/2023

NASA announces the four astronauts who will take part in Artemis II, the next phase of the agency’s goal to establish a long-term scientific and human presence on the moon. It builds on Artemis I, which was an uncrewed flight test.

02/06/2023

Wishing you all comfort and peace, and wishing you a warm and joyous start to the celebration of Black History Month.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

BEAM: https://beam.community/ Black Emotional and Mental Health Collaborative

Asian Mental Health Collective: https://www.asianmhc.org/ aspiring to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.

Stop AAPI Hate: https://stopaapihate.org/

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