A presentation given at the 2018 Missouri STEM summit to inspire educators, mentors, parents, and industry to motivate female students to pursue future careers in STEM.

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Diversity Drives Innovation:
Empowering Future Female
STEM Leaders
Aimee Hood
Regulatory Communications Lead
Bayer
@achood4mu

2. <8% of all
U.S. patents list a
woman as the
primary inventor.
Men and women will
not reach parity in
patenting until
2092.
<20% of all U.S.
patents list one or
more women as
inventors.
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Milli, J. (2018). Innovation and Intellectual Property Among Women Entrepreneurs, and Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting, Innovation, and Commercialization: Programs Promoting Equity and Inclusion. Institute for Women’s Policy Research

3. Who Am I?
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4. What We Know:
Diversity drives innovation.
Innovation solves challenges.
Only 30% of STEM degree
holders are women.1
4 1: Noonan, R. (2017). Women in STEM: 2017 update: ESA Issue Brief #06-17. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration.

5. 5
Just Ask

6. What STEM experience
could I bring to a local
classroom?
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7. 7
Show & Tell

8. What other hands-on
opportunities can you
think of?
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9. 9
Be a Mentor

10. What other creative
mentoring ideas can you
think of?
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11. Just Ask
Show & Tell
Be a Mentor
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