Grace under fire: examining the underrepresentation and persistence of women in STEM professions from an ecological systems theory perspective / Ursula Thomas, Jill Drake -- Constructing conducive environment for women of color in engineering undergraduate education / Hyun Kyoung Ro, Kadian McIntosh -- Barriers to success: disadvantages of gender normative language to women in STEM / Melissa M. Haswell -- Overcoming the myriad of obstacles: the ongoing journey as a female African American physicist / Helen Cassandra Jackson -- Standing alone in computer science education: a story of black women in academia / Mechelle Gittens -- Race and gender inequalities in medicine and biomedical research / Djana Harp [and 5 others] -- African American women in STEM Education: the cycle of microaggressions from P-12 classrooms to higher education and back / Susan Ferguson Martin, Andre Green, Melissa Dean -- Are female STEM majors academic risk takers? / Tara L. R. Beziat [and 3 others] -- Fortitude: a study of African Americans in surgery in New York City / Robert S. Kurtz -- Black women and science in higher education: not much has changed - still the struggle / Bonita Flournoy -- STEM fields and ethnic women in New Zealand: issues of sexism and racism / Charles Mpofu -- Prestigious college courses and race/skin color: some thoughts about higher education in Brazil / Patricia Costa Pereira da Silva -- Becoming a trauma surgeon: how race impacted my journey / Ruby Skinner.