STEM Opportunities Quotes

One thing that was very important to me was that I felt comfortable in the lab from being very, very small. I knew that that's where I belonged, and I could fix things and move things. And no matter how many classrooms I went into where I was the only girl in the physics class or whatever, I never questioned the fact that I didn't belong there.

So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.

The scientists I looked up to at the beginning were not Latino. They were famous scientists of many years ago, like Madame Curie. Later, I realized that there were also, but a very few, Latino scientists. There were good ones, but very few, because there wasn't as much a tradition to be a scientist in our culture. But this is changing.

Aside from introducing and supporting legislation to help close the gender gap in STEM, I believe that shining the spotlight on female role models is one of the best ways we can break the gender stereotype.

The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in 'Hidden Figures' inspire them.

The gender disparity in STEM is depriving our country of talented minds that could be inventing the next breakthrough technology, founding the next big startup or keeping our nation safe from cyberattacks.

In science, technology, engineering and mathematics, men far outnumber women in the classroom and the boardroom.

Boosting STEM education opportunities for young women globally is one critical way that the U.S. can promote women's equality, as well as economic development, around the world.

Girls need to see somebody that looks like them talking about science and technology.

I think for a long time we were just 10 percent women in physics, and so obviously people can see things in the way they've always been seen.

By highlighting female pioneers in STEM, we can encourage aspiring young women who want to study or work in these fields.

I want to try to do something for women in physics worldwide.