Women In STEM Field

For many girls, it shapes their personality in ways they might not even notice. For example, many science fields are extremely male dominated so beyond the awkwardness she might feel in being there, there will be a sense of being out of place for her. This is because in the traditional definition of what it means to be a woman does not include being intelligent. For women who are naturally intelligent, strong-willed, outgoing, or tend to exhibit many male characteristics, it is not only hard but very confusing to balance what she might think she should be and what men have defined her as. So, to be successful, one must define her own self through the male

It's is written in history that the field of Math and Science seems to be a more male dominant field. The evidence shows that years ago women were discouraged from pursuing the field. We learned about the Darwin theory which is based on the fact that men were inferior to women. A theory that to a point made society actually believes that because men's brains were bigger they were smarter than females. This matter on top of a society that already didn't treat male and female equal created more challenges for women to succeed. Another main reason was that education for women wasn't as accessible as it was to men. Women didn't have the resources and at times weren't allowed to attend the schools available to men.

Girls are known for their mature acquaintances through research. Scholar Satoshi Kanazawa states, “that male intelligence does not emerge until after puberty, due to girls mature faster than boys,” from the article, “Girls Are More Intelligent Than Boys.” For example, in the movie the boys could have worked as a team for survival, instead, they lacked in, cohesion and worked individually. The boys created two teams that conflicted the number of basic survival needs such as, food and shelter. On top of that, boys are seen as “Power”.

All though women in STEM face many challenges as a whole, a question being posed in this study is whether or not women in math and physics intensive studies face unique obstacles. Underrepresentation in STEM seems a stubborn fact of the matter, however, it is not even across the board. The number of women present in the life sciences (sciences such as biology, environmental studies, health care, etc.), both at the academic and professional level, is much higher than the number of women present in fields that focus heavily on math, physics, and engineering. More and more women are choosing to pursue post-secondary education and enter the specialized workforce; in 2010 the AAUW found “Women currently earn over half of all doctoral degrees

I am interested in Georgia Tech because of their establishment in encouraging young women to pursue a career in engineering. The Georgia Tech Women in Engineering (WIE) program inspires women to pursue a predominately male dominated career. This program encourages women to aspire in improving conditions for future generations of females wanting to pursue this field. Thus providing the necessary support for women wanting to positively change the idea of the engineering profession. This program also provides opportunities for women to become leaders therefore increasing the confidence of women in technology. Georgia Tech allows for women like myself to be given opportunities that otherwise would be difficult to achieve on our own. As a young

The article, “Calculus Steers Women Away From STEM”, by Lauren Camera, describes a study done by researchers at Colorado State University that asked 5,000 students how they felt about going into STEM careers after taking Calculus I. About 14% of men who switched out of STEM careers said it was because they didn’t feel that they understood the “ideas of Calculus” enough to continue to Calculus II. The number of women who provided the same reason for dropping out of a STEM career was more than double the number of men at 35%. The author then goes on to explain that most of the students who switched out for this reason had received grades in Calculus that wouldn’t have held them back in careers that they had switched out of. Another interesting

While I agree that by the time I got to college, I sought to choose a career based on my interests and not social standards of gender, I was not always this way as a child. Growing up, I was strong in science and math, but I struggled with reading. My third grade teacher told me, “Girls are good at reading. They hate math.” At that point, I thought something was wrong with me, because I liked math and not reading. I also tended to play more with boys and preferred

Growing up, I didn’t always conform to the normal little girl ways set by my society. I had Barbie dolls but I also had Pokémon, Dinosaurs, and Ninja turtle toys. The social gender norm for girls would be tea parties and Barbie dolls, while boys would have dinosaurs and car toys. Though, I had a little bit of everything, as an only child I had a choice of what I thought I liked better. My parents didn’t choose what was right for me, and I didn’t so much care about what other kids had. I also started a sport very young, I joined a swim team because my dad taught me how to swim at the age of five and I adored it. Ever since then I started playing outdoors and I grew up playing basketball and football with the neighbor boys. Therefore, I always had the mindset that girls could do anything that boys could do, and gender didn’t matter in most cases. Unlike the common belief that boys or men in general are better, or more superior. My parents raised me on a more neutral level and it changed my views from the social “norm”.

Although I’m not happy with my result, it doesn't surprise me. Being a female currently studying liberal arts, while my fiancé studies Aquarian Science the implicit association with Science and Liberal Arts in my household strengths my results. Majority of my female friends either have or are working towards a degree in the liberal arts field, so naturally I associate topics such as literature, history and art to females. This isn’t to say females are incapable of careers in the field of science, just as males are not incapable of careers in liberal arts.

Throughout the years women have played a variety of roles in the medical field. Changes through history have led to vicissitudes in how women our perceived as physicians. As time has passed, women have increased their ability to labor in these fields by hard work and determination. The reasons why women are important in the medical filed, and the different transformations they have made in healthcare are enormous. There are increasing reasons as to why women are being valued just as much as men in today’s society, not just in healthcare, but in other professions as well.

What you are about to hear are a few letters to people in this world involving the issue of sexism. I am a young women. No one should grow up in this world thinking they can’t do something due to something as stupid as one’s gender. According to a Boston Globe article by Maria Danilova dated January 27, 2017 which states, “Can women be brilliant? Young girls are not so sure. A study published Thursday in the journal Science suggests that girls as young as 6 can be led to believe men are inherently smarter and more talented than women, making girls less motivated to pursue novel activities or ambitious careers. That such stereotypes exist is hardly a surprise, but the findings show these biases can

Engineering is a field dominated by men in today's society, for many reasons. When people think about engineering they think about men with glasses and never does a women come to mind. However, there have been many studies on the skills that keep women out of engineering as a career yet there is no proof that women cannot or do not possess the skills needed to be a successful engineer. Therefore, it is thought and stereotyped that women do not have the skills to have an engineering career. Due to the studies and stereotypes the questions then arise as to what makes a good engineer. Many have the same response to the question but not one skill can a women not posses. Women are stereotyped as being dumb just because they are pretty. If a

I mean really. They pollinate. They eat dead things. There’s a bunch of them. Done and Done.

In the early nineteenth century Career and Technical Education (CTE) was aimed towards the male population. The role of a woman was to be a home maker. Most households could not afford an education for the females in the home. Women who could afford to be educated were instructed in more artistic and moral subjects, to keep them busy and prepare them for being a respectable parent. As men were sent off to war, women began to play a bigger role outside of the home. The Civil War utilized women as government clerks and soon industrial jobs became available too. Later wars, like World War I and II, saw women not just sewing but in munitions plants as well. Unfortunately, women were paid at much lower rates than their male counterparts. The government realized there was a need for educating the female population and the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 included home economics.

Not only are women deliberately kept out of joining medical schools and medical practices in general, their bodies are also not typically studied in medical science and research, because instead, male bodies are more often used. This makes the male body seem dominantly normative and generalizes an idea that women’s bodies must be similar to men’s, and dangerously disregards women’s particular differences. This causes medical professionals to make decisions based on this research that may not be particularly appropriate for women, such as the fact that aspirin reduces the rate of heart attacks for men but not for women, much to many doctors’ surprise. Gender stereotypes also exist within the medical field that may prevent women from receiving the care and attention they need, as many doctors often assume women are emotional, and thus, exaggerating their symptoms, versus men who are believed to be more rational. This also affects the amount of care they receive, which sometimes is too much or too little because some procedures like cesarean sections and hysterectomies are performed too often when other options would be just as adequate, but unfortunately, women’s reproductive systems are more emphasized than other just as important aspects of their health. In other instances, they do not receive as much diagnosis or are not taken as seriously as men are, by their doctors. According to our earlier readings, men are more often to interrupt women, so men physicians can often