Engineering is a profession that has traditionally been male dominated. In fact, men outnumber women in the global engineering workforce 86.3% to 13.7% (Source: Fictiv). But for innovation to thrive, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female engineers are some of the most underrepresented people in STEM. Some of the most significant gender disparities in STEM are ...

The International Women in Engineering Day is on Monday, June 23. The theme this year is "Together We Engineer." The theme celebrates collaboration, inclusivity, and collective strength in engineering ...

Editor’s note: According to the Maritime Safety Administration of the People’s Republic of China, at the end of 2023, China had 682,635 registered international seafarers. However, only 44,511 of them ...

June 23 was Women in Engineering Day. It was started by the Women’s Engineering Society in England in 2014 as a national event to showcase successes and achievements of female engineers. In 2017 the ...

Jacqueline Pettyjohn has been riding SEPTA's rails throughout the region for the past four decades. But, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, Pettyjohn -- who holds the distinction of being SEPTA's first ever ...

Many strides have been made over the last few decades to increase the number of women in engineering. Back in the 1970’s women accounted for only 3% of engineers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, ...

On March 12, in Classroom 2 of the Raymond H. Fogler Library, Society of Women Engineers (SWE) hosted their first book club meeting, titled “STEMinism.” The purpose of the club is to advocate for ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. This story first appeared in Engineers Week 2025, an annual special section that showcases a variety of ...

I grew up in a blue-collar household. Neither my parents nor grandparents were college graduates. They did, however, imagine college for me and my younger sister. As the older daughter by seven years, ...

In this fickle world, nothing can be said to be certain except death, taxes and gender disparity in tech and science. A raft of studies has seemingly confirmed this disparity; just as many women play ...