The Gender Gap in STEM
Overview
Archived session from the 2024 Arizona Regional OER Conference.
Session Title: The Gender Gap in STEM.
This resource includes the session abstract, presenter(s), resources, and recording.
Session Abstract, Presenters, Resources, and Recording
Session Abstract
Presentations about the UN SDG Open Pedagogy Fellowship I finished that focused on gender equality. I was paired with two instructors, Nahal Rodieck who is a writing and literature instructor at Pima Community College and Rachael Newton who is a Business instructor at Douglas College. My emphasis was The Gender Gap in STEM. My students engaged in two assignments target goal #5 “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”.
The two-part assignments included different activities and focused on different issues regarding the gender gap in the tech industry. For the first assignment, my students did research to investigate the Gender Gap in STEM and wrote a paper that defined an issue, the reasons behind it, and presented some strategies/solutions that have been discovered to create a more inclusive and diverse STEM community that benefits everyone then create a personal action plan. In the second assignment, they were asked to create an infographic to convey information and data they collected in the first assignment in a concise and engaging manner. Then they were asked to share the infographics on any social media for the purpose of raising awareness about the issue you addressed.
Presenter(s)
- Ayad Saknee, Paradise Valley Community College
Resources
Recording