Grandma Got STEM

Grandma Got STEM is a blog by Rachel Levy, a mathematician at Harvey Mudd College, about earlier generations of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Levy founded the blog in March 2013, and by June 2013 had already accumulated 100 posts to it.

The blog is aimed at a general audience. Its entries include pictures and stories about women who worked in STEM fields, and are intended to counter stereotypes of older women as being technologically inept, as well as to inspire future generations of women in STEM.

As the name of the blog suggests, the women featured on the blog are generally old enough to be grandmothers, although not all of them had children. Although many famous researchers are included, the blog posts also feature women who worked at lower-level teaching and laboratory assistant positions in STEM.

References

  1. 1 2 "Grandma Got Stem", Math in the News, Mathematical Association of America, July 26, 2013
  2. 1 2 3 "Grandma Got STEM", Web life, Physics World, 28 (2): 41, February 2015, doi:10.1088/2058-7058/28/2/37
  3. ↑ Bittel, Jason (March 26, 2013), "Amazing "Grandma Got STEM" Project Fights Old-Lady Luddite Stereotype", Future tense, Slate
  4. ↑ Benderly, Beryl Lieff (March 26, 2013), "Grandma, What a Big Brain You Have!", Science, doi:10.1126/science.caredit.a1300056
  5. ↑ Stroumboulopoulos, George (March 27, 2013), Awesome Blog Celebrates Grandmas Who Work(ed) In Science, Tech, Engineering And Math, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  6. 1 2 Lamb, Evelyn J. (June 6, 2013), "Celebrating the Grandmothers of STEM", Blog on Math Blogs – a tour of the mathematical blogosphere, American Mathematical Society
  7. ↑ Levy, Rachel (July 2013), "Grandma Got STEM turns 100 posts old!", Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 3 (2): 149–152, doi:10.5642/jhummath.201302.15
  8. ↑ Thompson, Katherine (January 2018), "A Survey of the Math Blogosphere", Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 8 (1): 126–139, doi:10.5642/jhummath.201801.09
  9. ↑ Lesser, Lawrence M. (2014), "Staring Down Stereotypes", The Mathematics Teacher, 107 (8), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: 568–571, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.107.8.0568