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Celebrating Women's History Month

Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th 1980 as National Women’s History Week. Subsequent Presidents continued to proclaim a National Women’s History Week in March until 1987 when Congress passed Public Law 100-9, designating March as “Women’s History Month.”

"Men and women have worked together to build this nation. Too often the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed. But the achievements, leadership, courage, strength and love of the women who built America was as vital as that of the men whose names we know so well."

- Jimmy Carter

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CEMS WORKSHOP: My Role in Equity and Diversity Work

If “diversity is everybody’s everyday work,” then what is my role? This foundational workshop introduces participants to the core concepts around equity, diversity, and social justice. Key topics include foundational terminology, understanding our own identities, exploring bias and oppression, and how to work to be an ally and advocate in this work.

Wednesday, March 10 10 AM - 12 PM

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tim Pawlenty on the Future of the Republican Party March 9 12 - 1 PM Register here.

CEMS SOAR: My Role in Equity and Diversity Work March 10 10 AM - 12 PM Register here.

Moral Imagination for Social Justice in Engineering March 12 1 - 2:30 PM Register here.

LEARN | Building Gender IQ

HeForShe has developed a free, online curriculum designed to help participants...

Recognize how unconscious assumptions shape gender norms, roles, and relations.
Describe the cost of gender inequality at home, school, and work.
Develop personal action commitments to promote gender equality.

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ACT | Women in STEM Mentorship

This mentorship program connects STEM women students with STEM women professionals as mentors and role models. Their goal is to cultivate new relationships that help women pursue and persist in STEM education and careers.

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GIVE | STEM for Her

The STEM for Her Mission is to promote education to create awareness, excitement, and opportunities among girls and young women to launch successful STEM-related careers. Through direct exposure to hands-on experiences, mentors and role models and other programs, STEM for Her enables girls and young women to envision the path to an education and a career in STEM.

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CEMS SOAR is open to all undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff.

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Friends of Europe [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://www.friendsofeurope.org/events/women-in-stem/

National Women's History Museum [Text]. Retrieved from https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/womens-history-month

HeForShe [Online Image]. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeForShe

HeForShe [Text]. Retrieved from http://genderiq.pwc.com/story_content/external_files/Key%20Learning%20Points_2019.pdf

Woman to Woman Mentoring [Online Image and Text]. Retrieved from https://www.womantowomanmentoring.org/programs/women-in-stem/

Stem for Her [Online Image and Text]. Retrieved from https://www.stemforher.org/about-us/

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