The Energy Department's Dr. Karina Edmonds and Erin Pierce talk
to thousands as part of the Women in STEM Tweet Up on March 22,
2012. | Photo credit: Quentin Kruger | Energy Department file
photo We recently held a Tweet Up about women in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). During the
event, experts in STEM wrote more than 1,500 tweets as part of a
conversation about the challenges they've faced, who and what
inspires them, and what we can be doing to close the gap for
women in STEM fields. Among those co-hosting were women from the
Energy Department, Argonne National Lab, NASA, NOAA, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency,
the Department of Education, the White House Initiative on Asian
Americans and Pacific Islanders, the Department of Labor, and
Congresswoman Eddie B. Johnson’s office. The number and
diversity of voices involved, with over 13 million tweet
impressions, shows all of us have a stake in addressing the STEM
gender gap. Everyone has a role