#Girls' Education in STEM

Dr Lakshmi Ramachandran is a Scientific Writer and Outreach Coordinator with the National University of Singapore’s Mechanobiology Institute and was a delegate at UNESCO’s recent International Symposium and Policy Forum, “Cracking the code: girls'...

Afra Feyza Toksal was that stellar student that teachers dream about. She consistently ranked first among her peers in primary and secondary school, breezing through standardized exams in her native Turkey to earn a place in one of the country’s most well...

For BBC presenter Zeinab Badawi, the debate around the media’s role in limiting girls’ educational and work choices is a personal one with roots going back to her great-grandfather’s pioneering efforts to break gender barriers in education in Sudan...

When she was 12 years old, Devki met the queen of Sweden. Impressed by the girl’s sense of self-possession, the monarch asked her, how can you be so confident? “Well,” Devki replied, “I’m the prime minister.” And indeed she was – prime minister of the...

Groundbreaking global report on gender inequalities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education launched as three-day event aimed at tackling barriers to development gets under way in Bangkok BANGKOK (28 August 2017) – Girls and...