Welcome to Duquesne University's Women in STEM guide. This guide features the many women at Duquesne and elsewhere who are making (or have made)
a difference in the STEM fields. Know someone who should be featured on this guide? Email me and let me know so I can add her!
public domain photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston
This guide profiles many women in STEM fields, including Ruby Hirose, Marie Maynard Daly, Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, and Lise Meitner.
public domain images: Hirose; Daly; Hamilton; Johnson; Meitner
Gumberg Library has lots of resources for learning more about women's contributions to STEM fields.
To find print books, click the following links:
Prefer e-books?
Looking for journal articles?
"Women in science" in GreenFILE
Women AND engineer* in Academic Search Elite
Women AND (computer science OR computer program*) in Academic Search Elite
This work by Rebekah Miller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license; CC BY-NC 4.0
Click on each book to see details.
Picture a Scientist, Film Platform, 2020 (Video)
National Women's History Museum Exhibit: Breaking In: Women in STEM
CHF Women in Chemistry TV/Film Series
Southern Polytechnic State University: Recovering Women in STEM Wiki
Lady Science - see also their free, downloadable ebooks, Lady Science vol. 1 & Lady Science vol. 2.
"Historic rejection letters to women engineers" The Atlantic article by Adrienne LaFrance
"Women in science: weird sisters?" Nature article by Patricia Fara
"'The Finkbeiner Test:' Seven rules to avoid gratuitous gender profiles of female scientists" Columbia Journalism Review article by Curtis Brainard
"Journals invite too few women to referee" article in Nature
Joining a professional society can help you network throughout your career. See below for some of the many possible groups or societies you can join.