Women in STEM
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Stories about Women in STEM
BUET Gets a Sanitary-Pad Vending Machine. Menstrual Access Should Be Standard Campus Infrastructure
Female students and staff at BUET’s Materials and Metallurgical Engineering department can now buy sanitary pads through a mobile-payment vending machine. One machine will not solve period poverty—but it shows how universities can make menstruation an ordinary infrastructure issue rather than an emergency women manage privately.
Shaheda Mustafiz Was Coding Before Bangladesh Had a Computer-Science Pipeline for Women
Bangladesh’s first woman programmer entered technology when computer science was barely available as a local academic path. Five decades later, her career in banking automation, software exports and women’s technology training offers a reminder: today’s startup ecosystem was built by people working before there was an ecosystem.
National University Says Women Need Safer Campuses. Now Bangladesh Needs to Define What ‘Safe’ Actually Means
National University’s vice-chancellor says child marriage, violence and social barriers are pushing girls out before higher education and has called for safer, more supportive campuses and greater female participation in STEM. The next step is turning “safe campus” from a speech into measurable standards.