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Girls and STEM An Update Jacinta den

Background O Physicist O Physics/Maths teacher O Mother of 2 girls O School of Physics University of Melbourne O Laby Outreach and Teaching Fellow O Telescopes in Schools O Diversity and Equity O Investigating females in Physics

Issues O Numbers declining O Stereotypes O Marginalised group O Impostor Syndrome O Gender Bias

What the girls are saying. When asked what they thought was the reason why girls dropped out of Physics O No attractive career path O No visible female role models O Too hard O Lonely O Girls are better suited to biology O Girls aren’t good at Maths or Physics

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Where to start? O Female STEM role models O Think about our own unconscious bias O Encourage girls to try harder, take risks, not the easy way out O Need to better educate our students, schools and parents about the pre-req s for STEM courses O STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics

Physics at PVGC

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In reverse? O What about boys? O What about Humanities? Art? Hair dressing? Fashion design?

References 1. Study finds more girls opting out of maths and science and-science Influence of teachers on girls in Maths 0.pdf 3. Girls and STEM blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2014/09/04/nature-vs-nurture-girls- and-stem 4. EU Report on female researchers ort%202014_FINAL%20REPORT.pdf 5. Comments given to Women/Girls pursuing Science whisper_n_ html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

References 6. Prejudices prejudiced-too.html?_r=2 7. The Harvard Implicit Association tests are located at 8. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORK RELATED TO GENDER IN SCIENCE 9. ScienceGrrl STEM report sciencegrrl.co.uk/assets/SCIENCE-GRRL-Stem-Report_FINAL_WEBLINKS- 1.pdf awesome ways to get girls excited about STEM education coolmomtech.com/2014/11/ways-to-get-girls-excited-about-stem- education 11. Girls to Code