1. Girls and STEM An Update Jacinta den Besten @scopesinSchools

2. 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

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

4. 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

8. Zack Weinersmith @ZackWeiner

9. 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

10. Physics at PVGC

11. Feminist Hacker Barbie #FeministHackerBarbie

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

13. References 1. Study finds more girls opting out of maths and science http://theconversation.com/study-finds-more-girls-opting-out-of-maths- and-science-12221 2. Influence of teachers on girls in Maths https://hpl.uchicago.edu/sites/hpl.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/PNAS_201 0.pdf https://hpl.uchicago.edu/page/publications 3. Girls and STEM blogs.nature.com/soapboxscience/2014/09/04/nature-vs-nurture-girls- and-stem 4. EU Report on female researchers http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/pdf/research_policies/Researchers%20Rep ort%202014_FINAL%20REPORT.pdf 5. Comments given to Women/Girls pursuing Science http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/25/women-in-stem-stories- whisper_n_5844678.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

14. References 6. Prejudices http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/opinion/sunday/professors-are- prejudiced-too.html?_r=2 7. The Harvard Implicit Association tests are located at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ 8. AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORK RELATED TO GENDER IN SCIENCE https://www.math.ubc.ca/~gerg/papers/downloads/ABWRGS.pdf 9. ScienceGrrl STEM report sciencegrrl.co.uk/assets/SCIENCE-GRRL-Stem-Report_FINAL_WEBLINKS- 1.pdf 10. 7 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 www.projecteve.com/girls-code