Spotlight on STEM is a quarterly e-newsletter for American Association of University Women (AAUW) members across the country working to encourage girls to study science, technology, engineering, and math.

Link to the CNN article by Catriona Davies about Girl Geek Camp that was held on July 8-14, 2011 in Lebanon helped teens prepare for high-tech careers Girls learn social networking, programming, photography and security. Organizers aim was to end "myths" and close gender gap in Lebanon.

The Women In Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics ON THE AIR! website is an audio resource for anyone interested in the past, present and future role of women in science and technology education, fields and careers.

Marissa Mayer is a senior executive with the Google, and one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. Her work at Google influences how hundreds of millions of people access information on the web and she plays a key role in shaping Google’s most important products. She is one of the most iconic women in tech today, and her career path offers lessons for how to attract more women to a male-dominated field and undermines the assumption that to foster more female techies, it’s early or never.

The article about Sheryl Sandberg and her life and work in the male dominated field of computing, by Ken Auletta, published in The New Yorker, on July 11, 2011.

John Smith believed that social justice and economic efficiency were two sides of the same coin. This phrase, which guides the work of the Smith Institute, is particularly apposite to the issue of women in science, engineering and technology (SET). Despite rapid progress in other areas of the labour market, women are still under-represented in SET jobs. The authors of this collection of essays highlight not just the inequalities of this situation but also the cost to the UK economy. We hope that this publication, which offers some practical suggestions on how government and the professions can help create a more balanced and skilled SET workforce, will raise awareness of the issue.

The European Centre for Women and Technology (ECWT) is a sustainable European multi-stakeholder partnership representing high-level expertise in women and technology development from business, government, academia and non-profit sectors and supporting regional innovation through leveraging resources, research, best practices and services.

Engineer Your Life web site is a guide to engineering careers for high school girls. Imagine what life would be like without pollution controls to preserve the environment, life-saving medical equipment, or low-cost building materials for fighting global poverty. All this takes engineering. In very real and concrete ways, women who become engineers save lives, prevent disease, reduce poverty, and protect our planet. Dream Big. Love what you do. Become an engineer.

The 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will was held in New York from 22nd February to 4 March 2011. The theme for this year's session was "Access and participation of women and girls in education, training, science and technology, including for the promotion of women's equal access to full employment and decent work". This GenderIT.org's special CSW edition brings together some of the work that the Association for Progressive Communications is doing on these issues.

An article about the study, which investigated whether stereotype threat can influence women's attributions of failure in a computer task. Results suggest a stereotype threat effect on women's attribution of failure: in the negative threat condition, women attributed the failure more internally (to their own inability), and man more externally (to the faulty technical equipment). In the positive and control conditions, no significant gender differences in attribution emerged.