{"id":5887,"date":"2015-03-09T18:30:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T01:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:13:42","slug":"looking-back-female-heroes-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/looking-back-female-heroes-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: Female Heroes in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/index.php\/women-in-stem-role-models-from-the-past\/\">blog post<\/a> that featured everyone&#8217;s favorite women in STEM history. In celebration of yesterday&#8217;s International Women&#8217;s Day, I&#8217;d like to bring that back!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5834 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait-418x600.jpg\" alt=\"Ada Lovelace, one of the pioneers of computing. Image from Wikipedia.\" width=\"418\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait-418x600.jpg 418w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait-157x225.jpg 157w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait-800x1149.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Keep checking back this month for more women&#8217;s history content.\u00a0Who is your STEM hero?<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-5887 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='5887' data-nonce='ee750c7abc' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-5887 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-5887 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='5887' data-nonce='ee750c7abc' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-5887 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-5887 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I wrote a blog post that featured everyone&#8217;s favorite women in STEM history. In celebration of yesterday&#8217;s International Women&#8217;s Day, I&#8217;d like to bring that back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1554],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-5887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academia","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/766b0adee766c4cbe4e5ae38ab97be11?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Mear","last_name_2":"","first_name":"Amber","first_name_2":"","job_title":"","description":"I was the Digilent blog editor, and now I'm a contributor. I love learning about wearables and writing about social issues in STEM. Outside of work, I can be found watching Netflix with my cat, working on an art project, or trying to find new, delicious local foods."}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5887"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}