{"id":4984,"date":"2022-03-16T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mathletics.com\/blog\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2023-01-23T02:37:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T02:37:07","slug":"women-in-stem-part-2-debunking-gender-stereotypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mathletics.com\/blog\/news\/women-in-stem-part-2-debunking-gender-stereotypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Women In STEM Part 2: Debunking Gender Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1206.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Are boys better in science and mathematics compared to girls? Do women still face gender stereotypes at education institutions and in their workplace?<\/p>\n<p>In celebration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3plearning.com\/world-maths-day\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Maths Day<\/a> and to empower girls to pursue mathematics, we spoke to different women in the STEM field to find out more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:768px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% 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online mathematics competition?<\/h4><\/h4><\/div><div class=\"fusion-aligncenter\"><style>.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1 .fusion-button-text,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1 i{color:#eef2f5;}.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1{border-color:#eef2f5;border-radius:30px 30px 30px 30px;background:#efa016;}.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:hover .fusion-button-text,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:hover i,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:focus .fusion-button-text,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:focus i,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:active .fusion-button-text,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:active i{color:#efa016;}.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:hover,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:active,.fusion-body .fusion-button.button-1:focus{border-color:#efa016;background:#eef2f5;}<\/style><a class=\"fusion-button button-flat fusion-button-default-size button-custom button-1 fusion-button-default-span \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.3plearning.com\/world-maths-day\/\"><span class=\"fusion-button-text\">Click here<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1206.4px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 16px !important\">Girls are Equally Good in Mathematics<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-4793\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-homepages.3plearning.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/assets-homepages.3plearning.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP.png\" alt=\"girls and mathematics\" width=\"398\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27398%27%20height%3D%27349%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20398%20349%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27398%27%20height%3D%27349%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP-160x140.png 160w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP-200x175.png 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP-320x281.png 320w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP-400x351.png 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP-480x421.png 480w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/WMD_Blog1_OP.png 600w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While certain research in the 1990s suggested girls don\u2019t study science and mathematics because they might not do as well as boys, recent research shows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/girls-get-better-grades-boys-even-stem-subjects-study-finds-n912891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">girls today score similarly or slightly higher than boys in science and mathematics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest results from the OECD\u2019s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/pisa\/publications\/PISA2018_CN_AUS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">girls in Australia perform on a similar level to boys<\/a> in both subjects.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, girls received more top grades in mathematics than boys in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2021\/aug\/13\/girls-overtake-boys-in-a-level-and-gcse-maths-so-are-they-smarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 A-level and GCSE results<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathletics.com\/blog\/news\/the-girl-who-smashed-world-maths-day-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Girl Who Smashed World Maths Day Records<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet, why do girls tend to have lower levels of confidence in their skills?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mehwish Nasim, a Lecturer and Data Science Researcher at Flinders University, reflects how she started unsure about her mathematics abilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring my undergrad days, there were a lot of other students who were far better than me. Most of them were boys who were getting top grades,\u201d said Mehwish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor some time, I did feel intimidated. I felt that my grades were getting affected because I made up a story in mind that I would never be as good as they were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was only after graduation when Mehwish started her first job working as a research engineer that she realised she was pretty good at what she did. She went on to do her master\u2019s and later pursued her Ph.D. in Network Analysis (part of applied mathematics) in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that, I never felt I was incapable of doing something. Somehow, I got that confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She lets in that \u201cas a girl, sometimes you just feel you can\u2019t do it.\u201d But Mehwish wants girls to know that\u2019s not the case, and hopes to impart that confidence to other people who would like to study the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Groundwater Modeller, Dr Juliette Woods, also had doubts about her ability because there was this idea that \u201cyou have to be brilliant to make it in mathematics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But she assures that there\u2019s so much work to be done out there using so many different types of mathematics skills, and various places you can work with mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than \u201cgetting hung up on whether you match what you think is the only possible version of how mathematics works,\u201d she encourages people to \u201cfollow your interest and \u201cfind where your niche is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For example, she had no idea that her interest in geology, physics, mathematics, and computing could be combined into an actual field and one which is useful for people and the ecology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathletics.com\/blog\/news\/women-in-stem-part-1-who-says-mathematics-jobs-are-boring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Who Says Mathematics Jobs Are Boring?\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 16px !important\">Confronting Gender Stereotypes<\/h3>\n<p>Pursing a STEM education as a female in the early 1990s was not that welcoming. Juliette recounts getting the most pushback during her university days, receiving \u201csmall sexist jokes all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of my fellow male students seem to be annoyed that there were women there. We call them micro-aggressions now, but nobody called them anything at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a time when it was hard to get access to a printer, she describes an incident where one male classmate even went out of his way to print 200 sexist blonde jokes.<\/p>\n<p>The physics department in her university was also not very inclusive and didn\u2019t have any women. She mentions how when a question was asked in class, \u201cyou were stared at,\u201d as if implying she should have found the answer in her textbook. This was one of the reasons why she made the move to mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found the mathematics department more supportive and interested. If you asked a question in the mathematics department, the response was, \u201cSomeone\u2019s interested to ask a question!\u201d, she said with a laugh.<\/p>\n<p>While there are certainly no more blonde jokes in the workplace, Juliette notes there are still subtle biases present, particularly when it comes to who gets hired and promoted.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mika Peace can attest to this. The Fire Research Meteorologist with the Bureau of Meteorology describes how early on in her career, obvious opportunities were open to males.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany males went through the front door in terms of opportunities. My career was a lot more going around the back door and finding out other avenues for doing interesting work,\u201d added Mika.<\/p>\n<p>Even though she had to go through the \u2018back door\u2019 to find other means for more opportunities, it made her career journey more varied and unique, as she got to dabble in unconventional and interesting work.<\/p>\n<p>Mika also wants people to know that the nerdy stereotype of female scientists or mathematicians doesn\u2019t apply at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the stereotypes you typically see on television of nerdy female scientists just simply don\u2019t apply. There are so many strong, glamorous women working in STEM and a lot of the women I work with are incredibly athletic as well,\u201d said the mother of two.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Charles T. Gray, a Data Scientist, and Research Software Engineer shares similar experiences. Until recently, she was often met with disbelief that she is in mathematical science.<\/p>\n<p>Over an email interview, she states how people openly told her they assumed she was doing the easy subjects, or that she obtained opportunities because she\u2019s an Eurasian woman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI worked very, very hard to get top grades and to learn hard mathematics and it\u2019s disappointing that it took me getting a Ph.D. and working in mathematical science for 10 years before I was seen as credible,\u201d Charles exclaimed.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><h3 style=\"margin-bottom: 16px !important\">Women in STEM Jobs Today<\/h3>\n<p><img class=\"lazyload alignnone size-full wp-image-4972\" src=\"https:\/\/assets-homepages.3plearning.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/assets-homepages.3plearning.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring.jpg\" alt=\"Women in different STEM jobs\" width=\"760\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27760%27%20height%3D%27310%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20760%20310%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27760%27%20height%3D%27310%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring-160x65.jpg 160w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring-200x82.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring-320x131.jpg 320w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring-400x163.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring-480x196.jpg 480w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring-600x245.jpg 600w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring-669x272.jpg 669w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/Women-in-STEM-Who-says-maths-jobs-are-boring.jpg 760w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A decade ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/amsi.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/RobertsGenderSTEMreport2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only 33% of tertiary qualifications<\/a> were awarded to Australian women in STEM fields. Thankfully, those numbers are growing.<\/p>\n<p>Women studying STEM subjects hit a peak in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.industry.gov.au\/news\/second-national-data-report-on-girls-and-women-in-stem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">making up 36% of Australian university STEM enrolments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stemwomen.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/women-in-stem-percentages-of-women-in-stem-statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10% growth from 2015 to 2019<\/a>, with one million women working in STEM occupations.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, transformation doesn\u2019t happen overnight.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s reassuring to know that the STEM scene is improving, and there are women out there representing and standing up for the team.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:768px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-3{ padding-top : 5%;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 5%;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0%;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0%;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[44],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Women In STEM Part 2: Debunking Gender Stereotypes<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are boys better than girls in mathematics ? 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