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kaliasnow

STEM Fields and the Gender Gap: Where are the Women? - 1 views

www.forbes.com/...gender-gap-where-are-the-women

GenderEquity EER leadership EDCI325 STEM 2017

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  • where is the female equivalent of Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg?
  • Create programs that will encourage women to study tech.
  • Rework the K-12 curriculum.
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  • Combat stereotypes.
  • encourage young girls to pursue opportunities in STEM by offering more hands-on workshops for girls to learn about science and technology.
kaliasnow

STEM Education - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC4712712

EDCI325 GenderEquity EER leadership technology 2017

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  • kaliasnow on 01 Apr 17
     
    One section focuses on Gender and STEM Education
elleneoneil

Statistics | National Girls Collaborative Project - 1 views

ngcproject.org/statistics

EDCI325 gender equity gender-equity EER 2017

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  • In 2012, 11.2% of bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering, 8.2% of master’s degrees in science and engineering, and 4.1% of doctorate degrees in science and engineering were awarded to minority women
  • Women make up half of the total U.S. college-educated workforce, but only 29% of the science and engineering workforce
  • Minority women comprise fewer than 1 in 10 employed scientists and engineer
  • elleneoneil on 27 Mar 17
     
    Statistics on diverse learners in STEM fields (including minorities and women)
elleneoneil

How Can We Encourage More Women to Study Computer Science? - 0 views

www.newsweek.com/-study-computer-science-341652

EDCI325 gender equity EER gender-equity 2017

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  • 1995, 29 percent of bachelor’s degrees in computer science were awarded to women; by 2012, the most recent year for which NSF data is available, only 18 percent of computer science undergraduates were women.
  • I also know firsthand how computer science and technology make for a great career, offering a good income, work-life balance and opportunities to travel. They also offer a chance to make significant contributions to the world, by working on important societal problems.
  • more on creative problem-solving. They included topics to show the breadth of the field and the ways in which it could benefit society.
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  • the faculty assigned team-based projects so students coded together. And most importantly, they made the courses fun.
  • A number of studies have shown that research experiences for undergraduate students increase retention and confidence in STEM fields, factors that are particularly important for women and minorities.
  • students get to see role models and are excited about the many amazing technology career paths they can pursue.
  • The National Science Foundation’s most recent (2012) report shows that computer science has the lowest proportion of women receiving bachelor degrees of all the STEM fields. The percentage dipped to a mere 11 percent from 2007 to 2009 and gradually returned to 14 percent by 2013 to 2014.
kaliasnow

Schools and Closing the Gender Gap Related to STEM - 0 views

smhp.psych.ucla.edu/...gengap.pdf

EDCI325 technology EER leadership GenderEquity 2017

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    This article focuses on gender equity and what is/isn't being done to address it.
Lucie deLaBruere

Women In Technology Stats: What's About To Change? [2020] - 0 views

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Change-project women STEM Week8

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  • In 2017, just 26% of professional computing jobs were held by women.
    • Lucie deLaBruere
      Lucie deLaBruere on 24 Feb 20
       
      Wonder how this has changed in 3 years.
  • 85% of Facebook’s global tech-related jobs are occupied by men.
  • ore promising for women, as you’ll see: 29% of all Apple leaders were women.
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  • companies with male leadership earned $58.2 billion in investments.
  • Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was one of the first programmers in history
  • In 1985, 37% of all US bachelors in Computer Sciences were women.
  • In 2018, 20% of all jobs in technology were held by women.
  • one out of three employees in Apple, Facebook, and Google was female.
  • Lucie deLaBruere on 24 Feb 20
     
    contains current stats on women in tech.
Cathy Knight

Women in Tech: The Missing Demographic - Harvard Political Review - 0 views

harvardpolitics.com/...n-tech-the-missing-demographic

EDCI325 EER pink ceiling

shared by Cathy Knight on 21 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • essary first step to changing the underrepresentation of women in the technical workforce. Young women are more likely to enter and succeed in fields in which they can see themselves. However, this can only be achieved when female students have the same opportunities as male students to succeed in STEM fields during high school and college, and then encounter successful role models in the professional world.
  • essary first step to changing the underrepresentation of women in the technical workforce.
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