{"id":3889,"date":"2019-11-06T12:07:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:09:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T17:09:16","slug":"closing-the-stem-gender-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/06\/closing-the-stem-gender-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the STEM Gender Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3890\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/STEM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3890\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/STEM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/STEM.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/STEM-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boys and girls enroll in advanced math and sciences classes at equal rates as they move into high school. But a gender gap appears as they get closer to college, with boys enrolling in more advanced STEM courses than girls, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/keeping-girls-stem-3-barriers-3-solutions\">recent <em>Edutopia<\/em> article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This gap widens the longer girls are in school and is often compounded by issues of race and class,\u201d according to Carly Berwick, a journalist and English teacher at a STEM magnet school in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The good news? Educators can help close the gap.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cResearchers don\u2019t know yet if these continuing disparities in STEM reflect the slow pace of societal change, child-rearing expectations, or something deeper and more entrenched, such as the way we think about girls\u2019 minds,\u201d Berwick notes. \u201cBut teachers can play a significant role in influencing or dispelling stereotypes in STEM education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strategies include ending the practice of tracking students into different courses based on presupposed ability, encouraging co-curricular participation in STEM activities, adapting new forms of assessment, and highlighting diverse STEM role models.<\/p>\n<p>Read Berwick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/keeping-girls-stem-3-barriers-3-solutions\">full article<\/a> and learn about the opportunities offered by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacfairs.org\/attend\/stem-college-and-career-fairs\/\">NACAC\u2019s STEM College and Career Fairs.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boys and girls enroll in advanced math and sciences classes at equal rates as they move into high school. But a gender gap appears as they get closer to college, with boys enrolling in more advanced STEM courses than girls, according to a recent Edutopia article. &#8220;This gap widens the longer girls are in school &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/11\/06\/closing-the-stem-gender-gap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Closing the STEM Gender Gap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-performance","category-national-college-fairs","category-stem"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-10J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}