--- title: Five Best: A Workshop May Help More Women Get Hired in STEM description: This workshop could help get more women hired in STEM fields, do we need aircraft carriers and more. canonical: https://time.com/4856473/this-workshop-could-help-more-women-get-hired-in-stem/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-13T16:00:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:41.064Z article:section: Ideas og:title: This Workshop Could Help More Women Get Hired in STEM og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4856473/this-workshop-could-help-more-women-get-hired-in-stem/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Workshop Could Help More Women Get Hired in STEM twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Workshop Could Help More Women Get Hired in STEM by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 13, 2017 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 13, 2017 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**This workshop could help get more women hired in STEM fields.**](https://www.thecut.com/2017/07/could-a-two-hour-workshop-help-get-more-women-hired-in-stem.html) By Jesse Singal in _the Cut_ **2\.** [**Do we need aircraft carriers?**](https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-06-28/how-america-s-aircraft-carriers-could-become-obsolete) By Justin Bachman at _Bloomberg Business_ **3\.** [**To boost your performance at almost any task, assign it a meaningless, ever-escalating score.**](https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/meaningless-accelerating-scores-yield-better-performance.html) By the _Association for Psychological Science_ **4\.** [**Bilingual pre-K is opening doors in California. Can it be a national model?**](https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/california-serving-bilingual-prekindergarteners-well-crucial-states-future/) By Sarah Jackson at _New America_ **5\.** [**To build a better bug spray, scientists have decoded how ants communicate by smell.**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/insect-repellent-development-hijacks-bugs-sense-smell-180964002/) By Kyle Frischkorn in _Smithsonian Magazine_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4856473/this-workshop-could-help-more-women-get-hired-in-stem/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4856473/this-workshop-could-help-more-women-get-hired-in-stem/"},"headline":"This Workshop Could Help More Women Get Hired in STEM","datePublished":"2017-07-13T16:00:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:41.064Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4856473/this-workshop-could-help-more-women-get-hired-in-stem/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","STEM","productivity","bugs"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4856473/this-workshop-could-help-more-women-get-hired-in-stem/","name":"This Workshop Could Help More Women Get Hired in STEM"}}]}] ```