[Spice CoP] 4 - IBSME: women in science

Interesting blog about Women in Science

2012-03-30T20:36:53Z

RE: women in science

2012-02-25T15:34:36Z

Peter Zwaveg:

And I forgot to say yesterday that a Pathway workshop has been planned in my country.

I encourage teachers in this community to check whether there is any Pathway workshop to which they may participate. They look very promising

Good to knwo! I shall try to find out and participate in those seminars or workshops, I'm quite interested in IBSME

RE: Role models

2012-02-25T15:33:18Z

Elizabeth Prune:

Beata Jarosievitz Dr:

Teachers are also models
Beata

Sure! In my area we are trying to convince retired teachers (rather, selected retired teachers) to come and visit the school and talk to the students about that issue

I have started this project. I t turns out that retired high school teachers are quite willing to participate in out of school activites, and even in coaching younger colleagues, I'll let you know about the future developments of my plans!

RE: Role models

2012-02-15T19:16:37Z

Beata Jarosievitz Dr:

Teachers are also models
Beata

Sure! In my area we are trying to convince retired teachers (rather, selected retired teachers) to come and visit the school and talk to the students about that issue

RE: women on the top

2012-02-14T11:56:28Z

I think they are also not well represented in Top positions in STEM careers.
It would be interesting have opinion from women scientists and collect info about students.
Sometimes teacher are in contact with students also after the diploma and they follow their life and their career. It would be interesting understand what happen when they go from high school to university and then work life

RE: women on the top

2012-02-13T18:34:16Z

Ivan De Winne:

Hello

I think that women are underrepresented in the top of science careers because the lifestyle choices tilt them toward other careers such as medicine and biology over mathematics, computer science, physics and engineering...

Ivan

But these you mention are also STEM careers. Are they well represented in TOP positions in them?

RE: women on the top

2012-02-13T17:20:54Z

RE: women on the top

2012-02-09T22:49:25Z

valeria manna:

Why are women represented in higher education in large numbers, but are not quite making it to the top?

In my opinion, some women can't make it because other tasks are also demanding their time.
But, most importantly, many women don't make to the top because they are very clever and decide about their priorities in a different way than men, and being booses of heads or TOP is not one of them.

What do you think?

RE: women in science

2012-02-09T22:43:43Z

RE: science and technology

2012-02-09T09:33:36Z

Albert Simago:

As Valeria comments, the topic of girls and science is quite interesting. One reference that I use a lot as a starting point is this one:

Gender differences in student attitudes toward science: A meta‐analysis of the literature from 1970 to 1991, by M Weinburgh - Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995 - Wile. It finds (not unexpectedly) that boys have more positive attitudes toward science than
girls. Many other studies have found that, and it is our task as Science teachers to try to change that fact.

Thanks Albert!
Science teachers as well media and parents are role models for students. We started a discussion in the same category "women in science", in "role model" thread.
By the way, done correctly, learning by teaching method is very efficient. Do you think it is an efficient method to make girls more motivated, self-confident and free from stereotyped thinking?

RE: science and technology

2012-02-08T17:14:23Z

women on the top

2012-02-03T11:01:39Z

Hello

I had a look to the interesting website that Andreu sent some weeks ago (http://www.cec-wys.org/html/). Thanks Adnreu.

And I found this question that I would like to post here and ask what do you think about it:

Why are women represented in higher education in large numbers, but are not quite making it to the top?

RE: science and technology

2012-02-03T10:48:31Z

Albert Gras-Martí:

valeria manna:

http://www.the-twist-project.eu/en/article/

Here is an interesting project about women in science. Do you know another interesting project about that?

Hello everybody! In my University we have organised online courses to read basic literature and discuss the problem of women scientists recognition, and the general issue of women studying science subjects. If anyone is interested in more details about the contents of this course please let me know.

Hi Albert
welcome to CoP!
It sounds great! Do you have any link we can have a look?
It would be nice to read some papers and discuss about last results and data related to the participation of girls in science subjects.

Valeria

RE: science and technology

2012-01-18T22:10:10Z

premysl velek:

Hi all,

here are some projects promoting greater uptake of STEM-related fields by girls:

HELENA: Higher Education Leading to Engineering and scientific careers

SESTEM: Supporting Equality in Science Technology and Mathematics related choices of careers

Thank you, interesting projects!

RE: science and technology

2012-01-16T09:11:29Z

RE: science and technology

2012-01-15T21:09:32Z

valeria manna:

http://www.the-twist-project.eu/en/article/

Here is an interesting project about women in science. Do you know another interesting project about that?

RE: women in science

2012-01-11T15:07:51Z

Tsetsa Tsolova Hristova:

Hello,
The project name was Xperimania. The deadline for this competitions has been extended to 15 October 2011 and the topic was "the role of women in chemistry".
There was 3 competitions:
1. Portrait of a woman chemist
2. Create a campaign on women and chemistry
3. Make a poster on women and chemistry
You and your student can look at very interesting materials here:
http://www.xperimania.net/ww/en/pub/xperimania/xp_iv/competition_1/gallery.cfm
http://www.xperimania.net/ww/en/pub/xperimania/xp_iv/competiton_2_/gallery.cfm
http://www.xperimania.net/ww/en/pub/xperimania/xp_iv/make_a_poster_on_women_and_che/gallery.cfm
Kids from 65 schools from 16 different European countries participated.
More about this competitions at:
http://www.xperimania.net/ww/en/pub/xperimania/news/news/xperimania_iv_finishes.htm
and for winners at:
http://www.xperimania.net/ww/en/pub/xperimania/news/news/winners_of_xperimania_iv.htm
My students also participate and was happy to learn about the role of woman in chemistry and about its scientific research.
I must thank Xperimnia for inspiring students to study science too.
Tsetsa Hristova

I strongly recommend participating in those competotions. I know a couple of colleagues who did and got some very interesting prizes in the past, and their students LIKED it a lot!!!!!!

RE: Role models

2012-01-10T20:44:04Z

Sure, Nobel prizes are an excellent place to start and discuss why historically many women were left aside when the prize was given to a tema where they participted. There are a nnumber of cases in Physics, Maths, Medicine, etc.

RE: science and technology

2012-01-10T14:08:40Z

Valeria
I also find the following reference of great use in the classroom:

Central European Center for WOmen and Youth in Science: The objective of CEC-WYS is to empower woman and young scientists in Central Europe and to contribute to achieving gender equality in R&D.
URL:
http://www.cec-wys.org/html/

RE: women in science

2012-01-09T16:20:45Z