Resources and Opportunities
Discover resources and opportunities available to support women in STEM across their careers and promote gender equity.
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Online
STEMinist Book Club
STEMinist Book Club provides an online space for like-minded women to discuss books about women in STEM and feminsim. Group members also meet up physically in cities around the world including Sydney, Dublin, Istanbul, Montreal and Oxford. Meet-ups are a welcome opportunity for groups of like-minded Stemminists to get together in a relaxed atmosphere, to network, discuss some of the current challenges for women in Stemm and share solutions and solidarity.
National
Code Like A Girl
Code Like a Girl is a social enterprise providing girls and women with the confidence, tools, knowledge and support to enter, and flourish, in the world of coding!
ACT, Canberra
Curious Minds
Ongoing
Curious Minds is aimed at highly capable girls in Years 9 and 10 who have an interest in STEM learning areas. This is a six-month program that combines two residential camps and a STEM coaching program. The coaching program will see each student matched with a female coach recruited from a variety of STEM backgrounds and together they will construct personal goals for the student. Learn more about the impact of the program here.
National
Soapbox Science
Ongoing
Soapbox Science is a novel public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and the science they do. Our events transform public areas into an arena for public learning and scientific debate
Online
Guide to Organising Inclusive Scientific Meetings
This document presents some concrete recommendations for how to incorporate inclusion and equity practices into scientific meetings, from the ground up.
Online
Regional Universities Network Women
Inspiring stories of women in science, technology and engineering who are studying, or have studied, at one of the network’s seven regionally-headquartered universities.
NSW, Wollongong
STEM camp for girls
From 17 Jan 2020 to 20 Jan 2020
Our four-day summer STEM Camp provides young women entering Years 10 and 11 in 2021 a fun and hands-on STEM experience and an exciting introduction to careers in STEM.
Online
Girled World
Award-winning edtech company skill-building the next gen of entrepreneurs, innovators and leaders with interactive events, real-world learning and global career mentors.
Careers with STEM - Women in STEM
Profiles and articles featuring women in a variety of careers in STEM.
ACT
ACT Young Women in Engineering (YoWIE)
From 13 Jan 2021 to 15 Jan 2021
Three-day workshop for girls in year 8 - 9 to come to UNSW Canberra and experience engineering first hand.