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  • Giving girls…and science…their due

    …ere are still gaps. One of those gaps exists in the sciences — itself an area that we do not value nearly enough. While I did go to a co-ed school, studied science, and worked in a biogeochemistry lab, I’m in the minority. In 2009–2010, women represented less than a quarter of all students in secondary or post-secondary education studying STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) topics nationally. This disparity has led to great debate o…

    Authored by on February 27, 2013

  • LEGO those gender stereotypes

    an: But you’re a girl.  Girls get butterflies. Daughter (giving me a desperate look): But I really want a jetpack! Realizing that my daughter was becoming unnecessarily upset, especially given the fact that there were 3 boys already engaging in play with their totally awesome jetpacks, myself and the hostess mother intervened.  We kindly reiterated my daughter’s requests for a jetpack.  And, so she was given a jetpack. Later that eve…

    Authored by on August 29, 2012

  • Don’t worry so much about being the right type of science role model

    …ned to answer this question but is much weaker in design so it’s difficult to say what it adds to the discussion. They used a similar design but with only the STEM role models, feminine and non-feminine (and only 42 students, 20% of whom didn’t receive part of the questionnaire due to an error). The only difference was instead of asking about students interest in studying math they tried to look at the combination of femininity and math success b…

    Authored by on May 30, 2012

  • Stereotype threat for girls and STEM

    …subjects [Stereotype 1]. The same abstracts were given either male or female authors, randomly [Stereotype 2], and then graded for “scientific quality” by graduate students in communication, either male or female [Stereotype 3]. This means these students who were being evaluated for their perception of quality based on gender stereotypes could be the same people who would be studying in and reporting on trends of the same bias in communication,…

    Authored by on April 10, 2013

  • Survival is Gendered, According to Scholastic

    …8221; 0. Survival skills for science fiction or fantasy scenarios, which are fun, but will never happen in real life (ghost attack, vampire attack, dinosaur attack, etc.). The score: “boys”  4, “girls” 3. Useful skills and advice for daily life or unusual situations (dealing with annoying people, getting over rejection, etc.). Not all of these are of equal um…significance, unless you think picking the right sunglasse…

    Authored by on June 14, 2012

  • Parent HPV vaccine concerns persist

    …pid increase of parents saying they won’t give their daughter the vaccine because of safety concerns or side effects. Overall, the percentage of parents who don’t intend to vaccinate their daughters increased from 39.8 percent in 2008 to 43.9 percent in 2010. Among the reasons given were that the vaccine was “not recommended” (which it is), it was “not needed” (which it is if you don’t want your daughter…

    Authored by on April 18, 2013

  • Why don’t more girls get the HPV vaccine??

    rmore, men can develop cancer from HPV. The virus is transmitted through skin to skin contact, which reduces the efficacy of condoms at preventing the spread of this disease. Yet, despite the dangers associated with HPV, only 33.9% of American girls, ages 13-17, reported to the CDC in 2010 that they had been fully vaccinated (3 doses)  against HPV.  When I mapped the state by state rates of vaccination, I found a dramatic distribution, from only…

    Authored by on March 24, 2012

  • Plan B now available to younger teens

    The age group that needs it most. by Emily Willingham      In December of 2011, Kathleen Sebelius, the Obama Administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, shocked the reproductive health community by blocking a bid to make Plan B, or “morning after” contraception, available over the counter (OTC) to teens under age 17. The much-anticipated OTC availability of this intervention to this age group had already received FDA…

    Authored by on April 5, 2013

  • Fighting the stereotype that math is only for boys

    …, the main culprit for girls not becoming enthusiastic about careers in mathematics and science is gender-stereotyping. The study speaks of the widespread cultural belief in the “girls don’t do math” stereotype. In the study, 247 school-age children (126 girls and 121 boys) were asked to sort four kinds of words: boy names, girl names, math words and reading words, into categories, with the use of an adapted keyboard on a laptop. The lead author…

    Authored by on August 22, 2012

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

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