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Why do women leave engineering? (MIT Article)
I found this article interesting: http://news.mit.edu/2016/why-do-wome...gineering-0615
I've typically been of the opinion that encouraging more females into STEM (and involved in FIRST) requires that mentors spend more time encouraging females to participate and dig in. If we have a shortage of females on the team, mentors need to work with the females more.
But this article points out that to get more females on the team we might also be effective in mentoring the males in how to behave on the team with respect to the females.
In other words, rather than mentors encouraging the girls to jump in, the mentors might do better to encourage the boys to encourage the girls to jump in.
Thoughts?
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John Vriezen
FRC, Mentor, Inspector #3184 2016- #4859 2015, #2530 2010-2014 FTC Mentor, Inspector #7152 2013-14
Last edited by jvriezen : 15-06-2016 at 15:37.
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