From Teen Vogue
In celebration of Muslim Women’s Day on March 27, Teen Vogue is highlighting the real stories of Muslim women.
It’s Muslim Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the accomplishments of Muslim women around the country and around the world. Muslim women are bountiful in the world of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and are making important discoveries that are making our world a better place, every day. From doctors and engineers to technologists at NASA, Muslim women in STEM are breaking down barriers and cracking open that ever-illusive glass ceiling.
Below, learn more about three amazing Muslim women who are blazing trails and making a difference.
Dr. Hina Chaudhry, Director of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York
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Dr. Chaudhry is a cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, making her mark in gene therapy research. She has one major piece of advice for women in STEM: keep going. “The glass ceiling is real — women physicians still earn less than their male peers, women scientists obtain less research grant money, and women entrepreneurs have a harder time raising venture capital,” she tells Teen Vogue. I’m trying to do all three, and believe that I can succeed at all three. When you pursue important scientific projects that solve critical clinical questions with the potential to cure diseases, you are able to eventually disrupt all of these areas.”
