The Future of Professional Women & Creativity: Impossible Dream?

The Buzz 1: “The greatest scientists are always artists as well.” [Albert Einstein] The Buzz 2: “At first glance, the words “science” and “creativity” might not seem like natural companions.…. But…the greatest scientific discoveries in history were born out of creative curiosity, and a desire to do things differently.” [Creativity in STEM – a contradiction in terms? Not for Europe’s girls!”, news.microsoft.com] The Buzz 3: “…I want to tell the young generation that the fields of STEM are innovative, inventive and visionary; all of which takes a lot of creativity…” [Shweta Agarwala] The Buzz 4: “How many of us use the term creative to describe a person who is good at math? But new research calls that perception into question, finding that the same amazing human creativity is at the root of both.” [Alison Escalante] We’ll ask creative professional women and novelists Leslie Wheeler, BJ Magnani, PhD, MD, S. Lee Manning and Ursula Wong for their take on The Future of Professional Women, Creativity and Technology: The Impossible Dream?”