Girls and STEM An Update Jacinta den Besten

Girls and STEM An Update Jacinta den Besten @scopesin. Schools

Background O Physicist O Physics/Maths teacher O Mother of 2 girls O School of Physics University of Melbourne O Laby Outreach and Teaching Fellow O Telescopes in Schools O Diversity and Equity O Investigating females in Physics

Issues O Numbers declining O Stereotypes O Marginalised group O Impostor Syndrome O Gender Bias

What the girls are saying. When asked what they thought was the reason why girls dropped out of Physics O No attractive career path O No visible female role models O Too hard O Lonely O Girls are better suited to biology O Girls aren’t good at Maths or Physics

Zack Weinersmith @Zack. Weiner

Where to start? O Female STEM role models O Think about our own unconscious bias O Encourage girls to try harder, take risks, not the easy way out O Need to better educate our students, schools and parents about the pre-reqs for STEM courses O STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics

Physics at PVGC

Feminist Hacker Barbie #Feminist. Hacker. Barbie

In reverse? O What about boys? O What about Humanities? Art? Hair dressing? Fashion design?

References Study finds more girls opting out of maths and science http: //theconversation. com/study-finds-more-girls-opting-out-of-mathsand-science-12221 2. Influence of teachers on girls in Maths https: //hpl. uchicago. edu/sites/hpl. uchicago. edu/files/uploads/PNAS_20 10. pdf https: //hpl. uchicago. edu/page/publications 3. Girls and STEM blogs. nature. com/soapboxscience/2014/09/04/nature-vs-nurture-girlsand-stem 4. EU Report on female researchers http: //ec. europa. eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/Researchers%20 R eport%202014_FINAL%20 REPORT. pdf 5. Comments given to Women/Girls pursuing Science http: //www. huffingtonpost. com/2014/09/25/women-in-stem-storieswhisper_n_5844678. html? utm_hp_ref=mostpopular 1.

References Prejudices http: //www. nytimes. com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/professors-areprejudiced-too. html? _r=2 7. The Harvard Implicit Association tests are located at https: //implicit. harvard. edu/implicit/ 8. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORK RELATED TO GENDER IN SCIENCE https: //www. math. ubc. ca/~gerg/papers/downloads/ABWRGS. pdf 9. Science. Grrl STEM report sciencegrrl. co. uk/assets/SCIENCE-GRRL-Stem. Report_FINAL_WEBLINKS-1. pdf 10. 7 awesome ways to get girls excited about STEM education coolmomtech. com/2014/11/ways-to-get-girls-excited-about-stemeducation 11. Girls to Code www. projecteve. com/girls-code 6.