The Department of Energy (DOE) is committed to encouraging women participation in DOE programs and funding opportunities; and enhancing the lives of women DOE employees and families of DOE employees.
About the White House Council on Women and Girls
Video: President Obama Signs Executive Order to create the White House Council on Women and Girls
On March 11, 2009, President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. In his remarks at the signing, the President underscored that the purpose of the Council is "to ensure that each of the agencies in which they're charged takes into account the needs of women and girls in the policies they draft, the programs they create, the legislation they support" and that the true purpose of our government is "to ensure that in America, all things are still possible for all people."
Video: Valerie Jarrett, Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, Senior Adviser and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement
Kristina M. Johnson, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Energy Sky Gallegos, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs Suzanne Gelderman, Office of Economic Impact
Science Careers in Search of Women: A Conference Focused on High School Women in Pursuit of a Career in Science and Technology Argonne National Laboratory April 22, 2010
Women in the News
Science Magazine recently published an article about women reentering science after family leave. Profiled is physicist Elizabeth Freeland, who obtained a career reentry grant to collaborate on a research project with Fermilab theorist Andreas Kronfeld. Read article >
