Gender Equality: A Work in Progress

[planetbrilliant]

I notice this to much on my team, which is kinda worrying. Like, a girl will attempt to help with building and later say she constantly feels excluded or belittled. We also tend to get pushed toward the more administrative jobs like attendence, financials, design, which, while being important, are not what some of us joined the team to do. Next year we plan on having everyone do like a google forms thing at the start detailing what they want to do, what they're interested in, etc, so we can make sure everyone is doing something they want to do. We also plan on marketing toward more girls and business classes, so we'll have people who are interested in business do that and people who want to work on the robot, can.

[stopyourself]

Originally Posted by planetbrilliant

I notice this to much on my team, which is kinda worrying. Like, a girl will attempt to help with building and later say she constantly feels excluded or belittled. We also tend to get pushed toward the more administrative jobs like attendence, financials, design, which, while being important, are not what some of us joined the team to do. Next year we plan on having everyone do like a google forms thing at the start detailing what they want to do, what they're interested in, etc, so we can make sure everyone is doing something they want to do. We also plan on marketing toward more girls and business classes, so we'll have people who are interested in business do that and people who want to work on the robot, can.

Eighty percent of girls in FRC work in the outreach/fundraising area, according to some FIRST publication I read. In our district (5 teams) we have 80% doing hands on work. This was not intentional, but I'm not sure how it ended up like that. Some of the teams do an approach where in the first year, a member has to do business or programming, and in the second they can opt for mechanical or electrical. Nearly all second-year members switch over.