Program for Women and Girls Professional Opportunities for Women in Research and Education Program for Women and Girls All of the divisions within the EHR Directorate encourage projects that address the participation of women and girls in science and engineering. Because women are underrepresented in most disciplines, the HRD Division supports focused interventions that are specifically directed toward increasing the number of women as full participants in the mainstream of the Nation's scientific and technological enterprise. Projects are built on existing intervention models or involve research in new settings that will create positive, permanent changes in the academic, scientific, and social climate.
Projects are both instructional and motivational.
The activity can focus on research topics or on the development and dissemination of strategies for reducing the barriers for women and girls in these areas.