{"id":200,"date":"2018-12-29T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idreamstem.org\/?p=200"},"modified":"2018-12-29T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T20:06:10","slug":"gender-and-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/gender-and-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender and STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>About 70% of science and engineering (S&amp;E) workers are white (2013 National Science Foundation statistic). The majority of these workers are white men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, women make up about 29% of the S&amp;E workforce. Middle school girls tend to show a high interest in STEM but their engagement tails off in high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This loss of interest for girls is attributed to social pressure to &#8216;fit in&#8217; and to a lack of access to technical topics [<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/firehose\/2017\/03\/01\/microsoft-study-in-europe-reveals-when-and-why-girls-interest-in-stem-fields-begins-to-wane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Microsoft report (opens in a new tab)\">Microsoft report<\/a>]. Parents and teachers play a key role in changing this dynamic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 70% of science and engineering workers are white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,18],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage","tag-gender-study","tag-nsf-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}