Book Giveaway

Fiercely Feminine: Be Your Authentic Self & Thrive in STEM

By Meleah Skovlin Ashford
Fiercely Feminine: Be Your Authentic Self & Thrive in STEM book cover

Fiercely Feminine is an empowering guide for women who want to thrive in STEM without sacrificing their authentic strengths. If navigating the challenges of being a woman in the masculine-oriented culture of science, technology, engineering, and math are dampening your career dreams, this book offers a new path forward.

Drawing from her 30-year engineering career and her later work as a life coach, Meleah shares a deeply personal and practical perspective on what drives women away from STEM and how to reclaim their careers. She shares strategies for navigating workplace bias, building confidence, and embracing qualities like empathy, intuition, creativity, and collaboration as professional advantages. Rather than burying these feminine characteristics, Meleah shows how capitalizing on them as strengths actually helps to succeed in STEM.

Through insight, reflection, and actionable tools, readers will learn to recognize hidden inequalities, reclaim their authentic energy, and balance feminine and masculine traits with confidence and purpose.

This book is an invitation to return to yourself, rediscover your value, and maintain a fulfilling STEM career. Be Fiercely Feminine and thrive!

WHO CAN ENTER?

The Fiercely Feminine book giveaway is open to both AWIS members and non-members. Limit one entry per person, per household. Winners will be randomly selected and notified via email. Giveaway open until September 18, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. ET.