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Diversity Problems

Sexual Orientation Gap Exists in STEM Fields, Study Finds

...cisgender heterosexual men. The study, published in the journal Plos One, found the sexual orientation gap between gay and straight men was smaller than the gender gap between men and...

Despite Education Gains, STEM Women in India Still Face Unequal Field

...STEM Gender Gap, One Toy at a Time Singh has similar stories. “Given the low number of hardcore women software engineers, there is an unconscious bias amongst the men,” she...

By Reshmi Chakraborty

Gender Stereotypes Can Drop Girls’ Interest in STEM by 50%, Suggests Research

...engineering, and math (STEM). The domain of innovation is riddled with gender stereotypes and remains largely gated. A new research shows children start developing ideas that STEM courses are more...

By Saumya Kalia

Closing the STEM Gender Gap, One Toy at a Time

...women’s advancement but scientific advancement overall. In 2016, a UNESCO Asia-Pacific education brief on the STEM gender gap noted that “there is a global ‘talent shortage’ of 38 per cent, with the...

By The Swaddle Team

Good Old Misogyny

STEM Fields With More Women Are Often Dismissed as ‘Soft Science,’ Shows Study

...new research. In other words, pervasive gender stereotypes impact people’s perception of a said field. Sexism in STEM is a beast of its own kind, one whose existence is widely...

By Saumya Kalia

Tell Me More: Talking STEM Education and Bias With the Co‑Founders of The Life of Science

...Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), and how that affects their minimal representation in STEM fields. The Swaddle: Recently, you’d put out a Twitter thread about delays in receiving scholarship...

Online Doctor Reviews Are Gender Biased, More Likely to Call Women ‘Cold’: Study

...for an urban demographic. However, this modern site of treatment has the potential to echo the gender gap that already thrives in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields —...

By Saumya Kalia

Barbie Toymaker Mattel Launches Line of Gender‑Neutral Dolls

...“a balanced representation (of genders) in toys” in an effort to close the gender gap in STEM subjects, reported The Guardian on Tuesday. Related on The Swaddle: Maker of Barbie...

By Liesl Goecker

The Difference Between Boys and Girls in the Classroom

...reverse gender gap in STEM subjects. But the fallout for girls seems more comprehensive — new research suggests girls are most likely to struggle with social, academic and behavioral issues...

By Liesl Goecker

Female Health Experts Lack the Twitter Influence of Their Male Peers, Study Finds

...gap in the online influence of health policy experts and researchers. Still, the findings reflect a larger discussion in health, medicine and STEM fields around the gender gap in visible...

By Liesl Goecker

Lean Mean Sexist Machine

How Our Digital Spaces Came To Be Unequal and Unsafe For Women

...a technology sector, these gaps should make policy-makers, educators and everyday citizens ‘blush’ in alarm,” write the authors of a 145-page gender gap report published by UNESCO in May, titled...

The Root Of The Gap

Women College Students Feel Highest‑Paying Fields Aren’t Realistic for Them to Pursue: Study

...specifically, as STEM has some of the highest-paying fields as well as some of the most gender unequal. “You may not be able to attract women to high-paying STEM careers...

By Liesl Goecker

Classroom Divide

Women Participate Less in Interactive College Classes Due to Fear of Peer Judgment: Study

...social, or learning, abilities of the vast spectrum of students into consideration. And, one of these oft-ignored diversities is gender. Titled Gender Differences in Student Participation in an Active Learning...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Public Service Announcement

All The Arguments You Need: To Convince Doubters of Feminism

...According to the World Economic Forum’s most recent Global Gender Gap report, at the current rate of progress, it will take another 108 years to reach gender parity. So, no; men...

By Pallavi Prasad

Knitting Is The New Coding

An Ancient, Female Handicraft Is Making Waves in Modern STEM Education

...machismo of STEM fields that partially drive their wide gender gap, appreciation for knitting’s complex underpinnings comes at an important time. In fact, knitting is at the forefront of a...

By Liesl Goecker

30% of India’s Science Decision‑Makers Must Be Women, Proposes Centre in Draft Guidelines

...sexual orientation gap in STEM. A UK-based survey had found that exclusion, harassment and discrimination drives scientists from sexual and gender minorities, especially transgender and non-binary people, to consider quitting....

By Devrupa Rakshit

69% of Experts Quoted By a Leading Science Publication Were Men: Study

...Four media agencies, including Agence France-Presse, also worked with Gender Gap Tracker, an automated system created by a Canadian team, to analyze five days of their news coverage last November....

By Devrupa Rakshit

Feminist Healthcare

More Than 63% of Indian Women’s Cancer Deaths Were Preventable: Lancet Study

...as well as patient advocates” — to investigate the glaring gender gap in cancer care, around the world. “Of the 3 million adults diagnosed with cancer under the age of...

By Devrupa Rakshit

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