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).[1][2][3][4][5][6] Levy founded the blog in March 2013, and by June 2013 had already accumulated 100 posts to it.[7]

The blog is aimed at a general audience.[8] 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,[1][9] as well as to inspire future generations of women in STEM.[2]

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.[2] Although many famous researchers are included, the blog posts also feature women who worked at lower-level teaching and laboratory assistant positions in STEM.[6]

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, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 107 (8): 568–571, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.107.8.0568
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