{"id":1205,"date":"2018-01-05T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/?page_id=1205"},"modified":"2025-04-23T21:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T01:17:21","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/?page_id=1205","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Our membership is comprised of women and men with a wide range of educational backgrounds\u00a0and career and professional development goals who share an interest in promoting the\u00a0advancement of women in science.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>AWIS DC Metropolitan chapter:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Increase the number of women obtaining their degrees in science and technology at\u00a0all levels<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Increase the number of women participating in the scientific and technological\u00a0workforce at all levels<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Raise public awareness of the scientific and technological skills and contributions of women<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Collaborate with other scientific, educational, and women&#8217;s organizations in\u00a0developing national and community programs that meet the above goals<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Provide awards for and recognition of individual women scientists in order to advance\u00a0the above goals<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>AWIS DC advances these goals by providing local professional development, leadership, and\u00a0networking opportunities for members and affiliates.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our membership is comprised of women and men with a wide range of educational backgrounds\u00a0and career and professional development goals who share an interest in promoting the\u00a0advancement of women in science. . AWIS DC Metropolitan chapter: Increase the number of women obtaining their degrees in science and technology at\u00a0all levels Increase the number of women &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/?page_id=1205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1205"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1205\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awisdc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}