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The organization UNESCO has stated that this gender disparity is due to discrimination, biases, social norms and expectations that influence the quality of education women receive and the subjects they study. [1] UNESCO also believes that having more women in STEM fields is desirable because it would help bring about sustainable development. [1]
According to PISA 2015 results, 4.8% of boys and 0.4% of girls expect an ICT career. [40]Studies suggest that many factors contribute to the attitudes towards the achievement of young men in mathematics and science, including encouragement from parents, interactions with mathematics and science teachers, curriculum content, hands-on laboratory experiences, high school achievement in ...
In 1990, women's labor force participation in the US was 74% compared to the non-US average of 67.1%, ranking the US 6th out of 22. In 2010, women's participation increased slightly to 75.2% in the US, while the non-US average jumped more than 12 percentage points to 79.5%. As a result, US women ranked 17th out of 22 countries only 20 years later.
Women report encountering a wide range of biases unrelated to performance or experience that can stunt their careers, new research finds. Women leaders face 30 types of bias in the workforce ...
Women's education has cognitive benefits for women as well. [13] Improved cognitive abilities increase the quality of life for women [ 12 ] and also lead to other benefits. One example of this is the fact that educated women are better able to make decisions related to health, both for themselves and their children. [ 13 ]
Our workforce is somewhat divided on viewpoints, and I think there's a number of people taking their cues on this issue from leaders on a particular side of political parties,” Kevin Oakes ...
The Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) is a non-profit research organization based in Washington, D.C. [2] Founded in 1987 by Heidi Hartmann, [3] IWPR works to increase public understanding of how social and government policies impede gender equality. [4]
Research on women's participation in the "hard" sciences such as physics and computer science speaks of the "leaky pipeline" model, in which the proportion of women "on track" to potentially becoming top scientists fall off at every step of the way, from getting interested in science and maths in elementary school, through doctorate ...