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You can’t be what you can’t see.
STEMM Training is often developed and delivered through a western lens, with little recognition for diverse knowledge systems or inclusion of varied cultural contexts. This, coupled with a lack of indigenous mentorship from women, and the cultural isolation that comes with leaving homelands for opportunities, all decrease indigenous women’s participation in STEMM, in favour of conforming to community norms of family caring responsibilities.
RESEARCH.
Mother Nature Needs Her Daughters: A Homeward Bound Global Review and Fact Sheet Investigating Gender Inequality in STEMM
Prepared by Fabian Dattner, Homeward Bound CEO and Co-founder;
Dr Mary-Ellen Feeney, Jacobs Group (Australia); and
Professor Tonia Gray, Centre for Educational Research, Western Sydney University.
Compiled by Homeward Bound Alumni from 2018 & 2019
Copies can be download at https://doi.org/10.26183/5d22d5fbe2349
Strengthening Australian Aboriginal Participation in University STEM Programs: A Northern Territory Perspective; Recognising and Reducing barriers to Science and Math education and STEM Careers for native Hawaiians and Pacific islanders
Osborne S, Paige K, Hattam R, Rigney L and Morrison A. (2019), Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40(1):49-67
https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2018.1552574
Kerr J, Hess DJ, Smith CM, and Hadfield MG. (2018). . CBE—Life Sciences Education 17:4
Women in the workplace
Women remain significantly underrepresented across the length of the corporate pipeline. Fewer women than men are hired at the entry level, despite women being 57% of recent college graduates. At every subsequent step, the representation of women further declines.
https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/gender-equality/women-in-the-workplace-2017
MEDIA.
Ten evidence based practises for de-biasing the workplace
HKS – An extensive body of research shows that role models help change behavior, and symbolic role models can influence people’s feelings of inclusion, exclusion and belonging. Examine the various symbols in your workplace – the pictures on your walls, the articles and photos on your website and marketing materials, the names of conference rooms and buildings, the people featured in the annual holiday video – and make sure that they represent the kind of workplace you want to be.
The Role Model Effect: Women Leaders Key To Inspiring The Next Generation
FORBES – The role-model effect: Seeing women in charge persuaded parents and teens that women can run things, and increased their ambitions. Changing perceptions and giving hope can have an impact on reality.
SHARE YOUR STORY.
How have you experienced this gender fact in your life or in your workplace?
Share your story, or how your organisation has overcome this fact.
New research? Let us know.
SHARE THIS #GENDERFACT.
It’s time to give women in STEMM a bigger voice. Share these facts with everyone you know. Shout it out loud. Be heard. Rally together. Pass it to your peers, your networks and social circles.
BECAUSE TOGETHER, WE CAN CHANGE THE STATUS QUO
start a conversation.
When you hold a GenderFacts.org mug in your hand, you must stop and think about the bias faced by women in the workplace.
What will you do to change it?
STRONGERTOGETHER
It’s time to give women in STEMM a bigger voice. Share these facts with everyone you know*. Shout it out loud. Be heard. Rally together. Pass it to your peers, your networks and social circles.
BECAUSE TOGETHER, WE CAN CHANGE THE STATUS QUO
* Steal the Gender Facts resources from our public TRELLO board. We don’t mind at all.