Discussion on All-Girl events

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Originally Posted by smitikshah

Thanks for sharing!

That is a very interesting study.

I did some super quick research to find more details about women retention rates in STEM overall and found this review.
Getting to be on drive team as coach this year (I do believe I genuinely earned the position), helped me learn to value myself and be more confident in my abilities. I can imagine that if for one day females got to be on a drive team and be more involved in the technical aspects of the program, it could boost their confidence and help retention rates later on. This event could help the next female who might develop a world changing program or invention build up the persistence they will need later on in life to keep doing what they are doing.

To start you did earn it as the person who put you in that position I can assure you of that. You didn't earn that from the most hours or most knowledge you earned if because of competence.
But here's my question and this is for everyone would being on drive team feel the same if the only reason you were there was because no boys were allowed there?