Stereotypes and Biases Individual Experiences in Context Nurturing Gender-Inclusive Environments International Perspectives Conclusion The 2024 research on gendered patterns in engineering specifically and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

1. UNESCO, “Cracking the Code Girls’ and Women’s Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM),” UNESCO, 2017. https://doi.org/10.54675/QYHK2407. 2. J. R. Cimpian and J. R. King, “An Institution-Level Analysis of Gender Gaps in STEM Over Time,” Scie...

The state of gender and racial inequity in the high-tech industry was never made clearer than in 2014, when Google became the first of the FAANG companies — a group of the most influential high-tech firms comprising Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google — t...

“A detailed analysis of the different types of capital showed how complex the process is for young women to pursue engineering and what extensive resources and supports are needed, especially for young women of color and from lower economic strata, to end up as engineers.” ...

“Engineering requires culturally masculine traits that both men and women have. The women in our study were as likely as the men to be interested in working with things, on average. But engineering also requires working with people to be effective — communication with the te...

Gender and intersectionality Individual-level and systems-level factors Damage-based vs. desire-based research International perspectives Stereotypes and biases Support networks, mentors, and role models Recruitment Retention and advancement Hope fo...

CREDIT: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The experiences of a woman chemist facing sexism in science in the mid-20th century seems an unlikely topic for 21st-century popular culture. Yet, Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry1 focuses on just that and has experienced treme...

CREDIT: Scribner | Simon & Schuster The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science1 provides a detailed account of how biologist Nancy Hopkins, Ph.D., led an effort in the late 1990s by 16 women faculty in STEM departments at the Massachusetts...

CREDIT: Scribner | Simon & Schuster Last year marked the 40th anniversary of Sally Ride becoming the first American woman in space. The idea of a female astronaut no longer seems strange, as dozens of women1 from a variety of countries have now ventured into space. B...

This literature review is the result of hundreds of hours of searching, selecting, and analyzing. The authors searched several academic databases, including EBSCO Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete; ScienceDirect; Taylor & Francis; ProQuest; American S...

Albakri, S., Ada, M. B., and Morrison, A. (2023). The Roles of Confidence and Perceived Usefulness in Female Student Engagement in High School Computing Science. 18th WiPSCE Conference Proceedings on Primary and Secondary Computing Education Research (pp. 1–9). Alderson, ...

Popular books and movies about the early days of NASA (e.g., Hidden Figures) and the development of the Enigma machine (e.g., The Imitation Game) have helped to create an awareness that women were not entirely absent from the important technological breakthroughs of the Worl...