This year, Women’s History Month celebrates the women who have led change, shaped the future, and reimagined their journeys, creating a path forward for generations to follow.
To honor this occasion, here is a curated list of SWE resources from our blog, magazine, podcast and courses, sharing inspiring stories of women engineers and their legacies over the years, as well as useful information to share with women engineers and girls interested in pursuing STEM fields professionally and/or academically.
Diverse: A SWE Podcast
- Ep 328: Crafting Your STEM Legacy With Dr. Ruth Jones: As the second African American woman in Alabama to earn a Ph.D. in physics, motivational speaker Dr. Ruth Jones shares her trailblazing journey, career advice, and the importance of leaving a purposeful legacy and helping the next generation. You can also watch her opening keynote video from WE25.
- Ep 313: Tales From the Archives: 75th Anniversary Edition With The Cooper Union: In this special episode, SWE Chief Archivist Troy Eller English and Mary Mann, archives librarian at The Cooper Union, celebrate SWE’s 75th anniversary in 2025 by unpacking stories from the archives about the founding meeting of SWE in 1950 and reflecting how understanding the past can inform future practices in engineering and society.
- Ep 269: Building Legacies, Changing Lives: Donor Perspectives on SWE’s Endowed Scholarship Program: Mary Zeis, SWENext coordinator for the SWE Pittsburgh Section, and Jessica Dresang, vice president & project manager with Carollo Engineers, share their personal motivations behind endowing scholarships with SWE and how these scholarships make an impact on the next generation of women engineers.
SWE Magazine
- Women Engineers (from SWE’s History) You Should Know: Learn about 14 trailblazers in the spring 2025 issue — the Society of Women Engineers’ founding and charter members — who paved the way for generations of women engineers to come, at a time when women’s rights were few and their opportunities fewer.
- SWE Scrapbook: See snapshots from SWE’s past and some of the major milestone moments and challenges in the Society’s history in this column authored by SWE archivist Troy Eller English. If you liked this then check out the Building A Legacy series from SWE’s 75th anniversary.
- All in the Family: Read about five innovative and accomplished mother and daughter duos who are building generational legacies across an array of engineering fields, charting powerful paths in STEM through prowess, passion, and persistence and redefining what it means to make a mark in the world of engineering.
Want a piece of SWE history for yourself? A variety of limited-edition 75th-anniversary merchandise alongside our year-round collection of SWE-branded apparel and accessories are still available at our sweSwag store so grab some now before these special items are gone!
All Together Blog
- Celebrating SWE’s 75-Year Legacy of Cultivating Belonging: SWE’s annual Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Report outlines SWE’s historic and ongoing efforts to create a culture where every member feels seen, supported, and valued, demonstrating both progress and purpose, while acknowledging that the journey toward equity and inclusion is continuous.
- Women’s History Month Through the Scope of SWE: Visit this detailed timeline from 1809 through 2011 of some noteworthy milestones in STEM industries and some of the outstanding women professionals and SWE members who have made valuable contributions to the world of engineering and technology.
- SWENext Celebrates 10 Years of Inspiring the Next Generation: It has been a decade since SWE launched SWENext, our free precollege program for students ages 5 through 18 to join the SWE engineering and technology community. The Society continues to expand its reach through multiple efforts: SWENext High School Leadership Academy (SHLA), SWENext Clubs, SWENext Connect, SWENext Influencers, SWENext Awards, and more.
Advance Learning Center
- Diversity Drivers: Five Keys to Recruiting and Retaining Women in STEM: Learn about the five key areas to consider as you build your roadmap to attract and retain women of color to your brand by addressing existing inequities, creating intentional recruitment and retainment programs, and how to best let the world know about your commitment to diversity.
- Negotiate Like a Boss: How to Be a Fierce Self-Advocate: Leveraging five strategies from her award-winning book, PUSHBACK: How Smart Women Ask — and Stand Up — for What They Want, Selena Rezvani teaches you how to use your presence to convey power in a negotiation, manage tradeoffs and get the “Yes” answer you need, whether negotiating with a peer, direct report, or authority figure.
- Creating Confidence When You Are the First or Only in the Room: During this session, Asia Bribiesca-Hedin explores what it takes to rise beyond the limitations that others place on us and the limitations we place on ourselves when experiencing being the “first” or the “only” in a room. Determine how to tap into your natural resilience and execute a simple formula for making strategic decisions.
Dive deeper into SWE’s history and the women who played a crucial role in its past with We Built This: a Look at the Society of Women Engineers’ First 75 Years, a scrapbook of stories and images from the SWE archives. All proceeds from sales go toward the SWE Legacy Endowed Scholarship.
