Gender And Diversity In Stem

Women are typically not well represented in STEM fields. These same women experience difficulties in advocacy and leadership, as well as hiring and promotion. Women of color, regardless of discipline, face this narrative daily and often throughout their entire careers. Women's Influence on Inclusion, Equity, and Diversity in STEM Fields seeks to critically examine the strategies that women across class and cultural groups use and the struggles they face in order to become successful in professional fields that include business, politics, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. While highlighting topics that include higher education, workplace perceptions, and information literacy, this publication is ideal for public administrators, human resources professionals, sociologists, academicians, researchers, and students interested in gender studies, public administration, the biological sciences, psychology, computer science, and the STEM fields.

Though there has been a rapid increase of women’s representation in law and business, their representation in STEM fields has not been matched. Researchers have revealed that there are several environmental and social barriers including stereotypes, gender bias, and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities that continue to block women’s progress in STEM. In this book, the authors address the issues that encounter women of color in STEM in higher education.

** Hardcover Edition. For softcover, please visithttp://www.blurb.ca/b/6755979-wwest-s-gender-diversity-in-stem-a-briefing-on-womWhether meeting with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) industry leaders, talking to engineers and scientists, holding workshops for non-profit leaders, or running outreach events for youth, the same questions come up and again:“Why women in STEM?”“Why does it matter?”“Aren’t we past bias in the workplace?”“What if engineering just isn’t interesting to girls?”“What can I do?”Answering these questions requires analysis supported by facts: studies, statistics, research, and scientifically-supported conclusions.This book responds to common questions, topics, and misconceptions with factual, cited answers and evidence. Each topic is succinct, covered in an at-a-glance visual format. These chapters are accompanied by commentaries from industry leaders and academic experts, selected to provide additional perspectives on the issue of gender diversity in STEM.Topics include:Microaggessions,The Business Case for Gender Diversity,Unconscious Bias,Stereotype Threat,Social Identity Threat in the Workplace,Understanding Workplace Diversity for Managers,Gendered Language and Stereotype Awareness for Hiring Committees,Mentoring Works,What is Engineering?,Why STEM? Information for Parents & Guardians.This briefing prepares you in taking the first - or the next - step in encouraging inclusive STEM communities.

This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.

** Hardcover Edition. For softcover, please visit http://www.blurb.ca/b/6755979-wwest-s-gender-diversity-in-stem-a-briefing-on-womWhether meeting with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) industry leaders, talking to engineers and scientists, holding workshops for non-profit leaders, or running outreach events for youth, the same questions come up and again:“Why women in STEM?”“Why does it matter?”“Aren’t we past bias in the workplace?”“What if engineering just isn’t interesting to girls?”“What can I do?”Answering these questions requires analysis supported by facts: studies, statistics, research, and scientifically-supported conclusions. This book responds to common questions, topics, and misconceptions with factual, cited answers and evidence. Each topic is succinct, covered in an at-a-glance visual format. These chapters are accompanied by commentaries from industry leaders and academic experts, selected to provide additional perspectives on the issue of gender diversity in STEM. Topics include:Microaggessions,The Business Case for Gender Diversity,Unconscious Bias,Stereotype Threat,Social Identity Threat in the Workplace,Understanding Workplace Diversity for Managers,Gendered Language and Stereotype Awareness for Hiring Committees,Mentoring Works,What is Engineering?,Why STEM? Information for Parents & Guardians.This briefing prepares you in taking the first - or the next - step in encouraging inclusive STEM communities.

"This timely volume brings together a range of international scholars to analyse cultural, political, and individual factors which contribute to the continued global issue of female underrepresentation in STEM study and careers. Offering a comparative approach to examining gender equity in STEM fields across countries including the UK, Germany, the US, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, and China, the volume provides a thematic breakdown of institutional trends and national policies that have successfully improved gender equity in STEM at institutions of higher education. Offering case studies that demonstrate how policies interact with changing social and cultural norms, and impact women's choices and experiences in relation to the uptake and continuation of STEM study at the undergraduate level, the volume highlights new directions for research and policy to promote gender equity in STEM at school, university, and career level. Contributing to the United Nations' (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in science education, higher education, and gender equity in STEM fields. The text will also support further discussion and reflection around multicultural education, educational policy and politics, and the sociology of education more broadly. Hyun Kyoung Ro is Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of North Texas, USA. Frank Fernandez is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at the University of Mississippi, USA. Elizabeth Ramon is a PhD student in Higher Education at the University of North Texas, USA"--