sprout-invoices domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home1/a992219/idreamstem.org/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 I don\u2019t know if you noticed but most STEM fields are dominated by males. Many speculate that this gender bias is because boys are pushed toward more STEM-centric activities like building toys while at an early age. Regardless of the reason, teams with women on them outperform those that do not by 15%, according to an Ohio University report<\/a>. That\u2019s a huge benefit of diversity in STEM workplaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why is this? It could be because women (read: girls) bring a unique leadership skill set. In other words, they usually approach leadership differently than most males. They can be STEM workplace game changers because of their innate abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s the type of leadership qualities women and girls and bring to the STEM workplace:<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I (Linda) taught in project-based settings in academia, I made a point of making sure all the girls were not on the same team. I knew that young men could make great leaders too<\/strong><\/em> but I also realized that diversity in leadership strengthened the team dynamic. I encouraged all team members to share responsibility for taking notes, being the team captain, etc. And reminded them that a person’s gender did not define their role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Each person comes with taught and ‘caught’ skills. Sometimes girls need to be reminded that they have value on a team. Challenge the girls in your life to see their tendency toward empathy and relationship-building as a strength. Did this article address some of your stereotypes about women and girls in STEM leadership? Leave a comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t know if you noticed but most STEM fields are dominated by males. Many speculate that this gender bias is because boys are pushed toward more STEM-centric activities like building toys while at an early age. Regardless of the reason, teams with women on them outperform those that do not by 15%, according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[24,22,25,23],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forparents","category-motivated","tag-diversity","tag-gender-bias","tag-leadership","tag-male-dominated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idreamstem.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}