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STEMWhy is it important for women and girls

to be in STEM?

Why aren’t more women and girls in

STEM?

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At the Solvay Conference on Physics in 1927

What’s wrong with this picture?

At the Solvay Conference on Physics and Chemistry in 2014

The World Needs More Than ½ its Brains If society needs a certain number of

scientists

and you can look for those scientists only among the males of the population,

you are going to have to go much farther toward the bottom of the barrel

than if you also can search among the females in the population Meg Urry, Chair Physics Department Yale University

Better Wages in STEM Careers

They Can Change the World, Help People

What is the problem?

STEREOTYPES

Science is too hard for girls

What remotely normal young woman would want to imagine herself as dowdy, socially clueless Amy rather than as stylish, bouncy, math-and-science-illiterate Penny?

Eileen Pollock NY Times October 3, 2014

Which Woman Do You Want to Be Like?

Which Woman Do You Want to Look Like?

Mayim Bialik, PhD Neuroscience, UCLA

they should dream in code,watch Star Trek, and read science fiction to be a computer scientist

Women in Computer Science

UNFRIENDLY CULTURE?

SOCIETY?

a culture that teaches girls math isn’t cool and no one will date them if they excel in physics Eileen Pollock

a culture in which success in graduate school is a matter of isolation, competition and ridiculously long hours in the lab Eileen Pollock

a culture in which female scientists are hired less frequently than men, earn less money and are allotted fewer resources

Eileen Pollock

a culture in which professors rarely encourage their female students to continue on for advanced degrees

Eileen Pollock

NOT ENOUGH ROLE MODELS

the reason there aren't more women computer scientists is

Jocelyn Goldfein, Director of Engineering FaceBook

"because there aren't more women computer scientists."

What can you as a parent and/or an

educator do?

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