Women's History Month

NJIT community members,

Throughout the month of March, NJIT will be celebrating Women’s History Month. As we do so, we will highlight the successes of women at and from our university as well as the impact of women on NJIT, in our society, and throughout our world.

NJIT’s Murray Center for Women in Technology, under the leadership of Dr. Nancy Steffen-Fluhr and in partnership with multiple departments and student groups, will be offering several opportunities to learn, share, and celebrate. Those include an International Women’s Day event on March 8 that takes place both virtually and in the Murray Center. On March 24, the Murray Center and Career Development Services are running an Equal Pay Day event focused on the severe economic impact that the current pandemic has had on women. And all month long, the Murray Center is conducting a virtual “Who’s Your Shero?” contest that encourages NJIT women to recognize other women in the community who have inspired and supported them. Additional programs will be announced as details are finalized.

It is important that we celebrate Women’s History Month and embrace our responsibility to cultivate future generations of women studying, researching, and working in the STEM fields. Women continue to be dramatically underrepresented in STEM, especially in engineering, and their perspectives are vitally important. When diverse teams work together, the members of those teams see a project through different lenses. That results in sharing information, raising questions, and developing solutions or efficiencies that may not even be considered by a project team which lacks diversity. Our challenge, though, goes beyond attracting significantly more women to the STEM fields; we must develop pathways for women to assume positions of leadership within those fields.

The women of NJIT have been and will continue to be both leaders and agents of change whose impact is felt not just on campus but around the world. Please join NJIT in honoring the many women who have bettered our university, and in the commitment to creating more and better opportunities for the next generation of women leaders. 

Sincerely,

NJIT President Joel S. Bloom