How Can We Close the Gender Gap Within STEM?
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The gender imbalance in STEM fields goes beyond women in these industries: It’s bad for women across our society. And if it’s bad for women, then it’s bad for society as a whole.
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The gender imbalance in STEM fields goes beyond women in these industries: It’s bad for women across our society. And if it’s bad for women, then it’s bad for society as a whole.
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Only five of the 100 national teen teams competing at Saturday’s Team America Rocketry Challenge are all-female. One contestant said that doesn’t faze her–male competitors stopped intimidating her in grade school.
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Integrating media technology in the classroom can help boost women’s participation in Internet culture, says Sharon Collingwood in the book of essays “Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition.” In this excerpt she spotlights female bloggers.
Negative perceptions are still choking off women’s access to careers in science, technology, engineering and math. But if girls are encouraged in the early grades they will benefit, along with the U.S. economy.
In this excerpt from “The Computer Boys Take Over,” historian Nathan Ensmenger explains that the first computer programmers were women because managers expected programming to be low-skill clerical work. They were wrong: The job required skill and ingenuity and these women persevered.
Practical advice on hiring women to the high-paying jobs in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) is offered in a 50-page study released today by the Anita Borg Institute. Women are 24 percent of the STEM work force.
Female automotive engineers recently talked about the nationwide launch this summer of the Chevrolet Volt, the first mass-produced electric car by General Motors. The event was designed to focus on women’s interest in engineering.