From Georgetown University’s Center on Education and Workforce recent report: “The findings are stark: Women earn less at all degree levels, even when they work as much as men. On average, women who work full-time, full-year earn 25 percent less than men, even at similar education levels. At all levels …
Very soon we’ll need to invite speakers for the WiGS-sponsored Combi and GS dept. seminars. We’d love to hear your suggestions for both of these seminars. This is your chance to try to get your favorite female researcher here to give a talk. For the GS department seminar, we’d like …
High school, community college, and university women are invited to explore opportunities in engineering and science careers at the 20th annual WiSE conference, a day devoted to celebrate women in the engineering and sciences. Women with vision and design on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers come together to …
We’ve recently updated our website. Now there are a lot of ways for you to interact with WiGS. Do you have something to say? Add a comment! You can always post a comment on any of our posts, or the feedback page for more general comments. It will also be …
Women in Genome Sciences (WiGS) is a group of genome scientists at the University of Washington working as an advocacy organization for women in our department and our field. We strive to ensure our department is encouraging to women in a number of ways: ensuring access to female speakers across diverse fields and career …
