Idiot Nerd Girl — a meme featuring a girl in oversized glasses with the word "NERD" written across her hand — is one example of geek culture's entrenched misogyny, but recently one woman decided to ...

As hard as it might be for some Marc Jacobs or Dolce and Gabbana aficionados to grasp, this season's most chic and sexy accessory may be a voluptuous brain. One on-campus group, the Nerd Girls Team, ...

Historically, women have been less involved in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) than men. Though it may be a problem deeply rooted in society, there has been a recent push to ...

This week’s Newsweek has an article that’s got me all confused. Titled “Revenge of the Nerdette,” it’s about the Nerd Girls, a group of young female engineering students from Tufts University who are ...

They’re hot. They’re sexy. They solve quadratic equations. They’re the Nerd Girls, and they’re out to explode the myth that a woman can’t be both smart and drop-dead gorgeous. “There’s a stereotype ...

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The word “nerd” has gotten out of hand. It all started with Myspace—with ridiculously hot girls describing themselves as “nerds.” As if. Build a time machine, go back to middle school, walk a mile in ...