#02.
when you hear “can’t” often enough, you begin to believe.
Gender stereotypes and biased attitudes limit the education choices of female students and compromises the quality of their learning experience. Globally, only 35% of students in STEMM-related degrees are female and only 28% of today’s researchers are women.
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
Diversity at 100: Women and underrepresented minorities in the ESA.
Beck C, Boersma K, Tysor CS, and Middendorf G. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Monitoring Australian Year 4 student achievement internationally: TIMSS and PIRLS 2011
Gender differences in self-confidence in STEMM subjects begin in middle school and increase in high school and college, with girls reporting less confidence than boys in their maths and science ability
MEDIA.
Reinforcing gender stereotypes: how our schools narrow children's choices
THE GUARDIAN – ‘Closing Doors’, a report launched by the Institute of Physics, demonstrates that the majority of schools don’t do enough to counter prevailing gender stereotypes.
Why do girls lose interest in STEM? New research has some answers — and what we can do about it
MICROSOFT – Peggy Johnson, an engineer who is now Microsoft’s executive vice president of business development, didn’t know what being an engineer looked like – until she got to college.
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BECAUSE TOGETHER, WE CAN CHANGE THE STATUS QUO
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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
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