[UbuntuWomen] 'Stereotype Threat': Why Women Quit Science Jobs

[Fred H Olson]

Here is a report broadcast on US Public Radio about a study that tries
to explain why fewer women than men seem to go into fields involving
science, engineering, technology and mathematics.

   'Stereotype Threat': Why Women Quit Science Jobs

    by Shankar Vedantam (On twitter: "hiddenbrain" (?))
                         ( maybe this is one of the researchers)

http://s.coop/womenscience   Short URL to:
http://www.npr.org/2012/07/12/156664337/stereotype-threat-why-women-quit-science-jobs

Tho it suggests a mechanism, it does not so far offer a strategy for
changing the numbers.  The conclusions include:


 The study suggests the gender disparity in science and technology may
 be, at least in part, the result of a vicious cycle.

 In order to boost the numbers of women who choose to go into those
 fields, you have to boost the number of women who are in those fields.

Comments?

FRed

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