March 29, 2019
Dr. Carol O’Donnell, Director of the Smithsonian Science Education Center, was featured in an article in El Tiempo Latino called, “Las mujeres y el STEM.” Despite diversity initiatives, it remains more challenging for women to land and to keep jobs in STEM fields than it is for their male counterparts. On March 20, the Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID), in partnership with the Arlington Chamber of Commerce and news site Axios, hosted a breakfast panel to discuss gender parity in STEM fields and the global and local implications of that gap. Dr. O'Donnell was one of the featured panelists. In response to the El Tiempo Latino article, a female pre-med student from George Washington University, where Dr. O’Donnell serves on the part-time faculty of the Physics Department, wrote, “I just wanted to say that I really appreciated what you had to say for students, like myself, who are looking into the sciences but are not quite sure if that is the path they want to take. I have been having so many doubts and I still am not sure what I want to do, but your words definitely meant a lot to me! I would love to hear more about what you do at the Smithsonian, and gain insight into what it is like being a woman in the STEM world.”
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