The Oxford Dictionary defines this as: The practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from under-represented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce.

Unfortunately, this happens a lot. Said Voltaire of Emilie du Chatelet (physicist and mathematician), “She was a great man whose only fault was being a woman.”

“The main stumbling block in the way of any progress is and always has been unimpeachable tradition.”

STEM women’s careers suffer disproportionately from taking family leave. Many fathers do not take paternity leave even where it is available.

Why is it that Marie Curie is almost always the one person that is brought up over and over when talking about women in STEM?

Allies, the ones who are actively engaged, are so important.