Planting empowerment and cultivating resilience through garden-based science since 2016.
Programs like Dirt Girls are needed to close the gender gap in STEM. As scientists wrestle with some of the most pressing problems of the 21st century, we cannot underestimate the advantages of a female point of view.
Women make up only 29% of the STEM workforce.
~National Girls Collaborative Project
Too often young girls are discouraged in school and in society from exploring their curiosity, from finding their voice, and from becoming leaders in fields that have been historically dominated by men.
“My daughter was captivated by the Dirt Girls program, falling in love with all the plants she learned to cultivate. Because of the spark ignited in her, she dreams of being a naturalist one day.”
~ Parent of a Dirt Girls Participant, 2021
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