{"id":83578,"date":"2018-10-14T17:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/%e2%80%8baustralia-gets-women-in-stem-ambassador-in-astrophysicist-professor"},"modified":"2018-10-17T20:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:48:20","slug":"%e2%80%8baustralia-gets-women-in-stem-ambassador-in-astrophysicist-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/%e2%80%8baustralia-gets-women-in-stem-ambassador-in-astrophysicist-professor","title":{"rendered":"\u200bAustralia gets Women in STEM Ambassador in astrophysicist professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/e2808baustralia-gets-women-in-stem-ambassador-in-astrophysicist-professor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The federal government has announced the appointment of Australia\u2019s first Women in STEM Ambassador, with Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith charged with overseeing the country\u2019s attempt to diversify its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics sectors.<\/p>\n<p>An astrophysicist professor, Harvey-Smith will specifically advocate for girls and women in STEM education and careers, aiming also to raise awareness in the male-dominated industry and drive cultural and social change for gender equity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/resource-library\/whitepapers\/the-state-of-women-in-computer-science-an-investigative-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The state of women in computer science: An investigative report [PDF download]<\/a><\/strong> (TechRepublic cover story) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australia-gets-women-in-stem-ambassador-in-astrophysicist-professor\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/australia-gets-women-in-stem-a...professor\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has announced the appointment of Australia\u2019s first Women in STEM Ambassador, with Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith charged with overseeing the country\u2019s attempt to diversify its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics sectors. An astrophysicist professor, Harvey-Smith will specifically advocate for girls and women in STEM education and careers, aiming also to raise awareness in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,38,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-engineering","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83738,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83578\/revisions\/83738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}