It’s part science club, part mentorship program and part launchpad for the next generation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). But what really connects the girls ...

Some of science's biggest breakthroughs had a woman behind them nobody mentioned in class.

Left in the shadows for centuries, women scientists will soon have the spotlight they deserve, in the truest sense of the word. These scientists, eclipsed from textbooks and forgotten despite their ...

When I was growing up, menstruation was called “the curse.” It was a curse – once used to enslave women, including barring co-educational pursuits. It took the medical research of one woman, Dr. Mary ...

To mark International Women’s Day, Julianna LeMieux, PhD, GEN‘s deputy editor-in-chief sat down with Amy Scharf and Katie Hafner, the co-founders of the non-profit organization Lost Women of Science ...

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 ...

If Ellen Swallow Richards, industrial chemist, sanitarian, efficiency expert, science educator, public health economist, nutritionist, proponent of women’s education (and more) had been born a man, ...

Meet six women of power: scientific researchers, technological leaders, mathematical or engineering geniuses. In this film, they reveal themselves: they share their journey, showcase their ...

Chemistry has a long history ultimately dating back to alchemy, although there have not been as many female chemists in history as female mathematicians. Maria Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) and her ...

When poet Jessy Randall started researching the lives of female scientists, she became angry. And we certainly can relate here at Lost Women of Science. So many women made important discoveries but ...