Why Women Account for Less than Men in STEM Related Industries

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210806.163How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender Equity, STEM Industries, Cultural Norm, Biological Difference, Education

Abstract

After identifying the difficult situation in women’s problems in STEM industries, we initiated the research by going over the past and ongoing viewpoints and conversations by other scholars. We compared and summarized valuable perspectives brought up by previous researchers and analyzed three possible dimensions that result in the current phenomenon: Education, culture, and biological difference. Then, we ran a detailed analysis of these two facets and discovered some possible reasons such as different treatments in school teachings, the problems of textbooks, gender inequality embedded in cultural values, gender discrimination in the workplace, etc.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xingshuo Geng
AU  - Amanda Huang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - Why Women Account for Less than Men in STEM Related Industries
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 858
EP  - 863
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.163
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.163
ID  - Geng2021
ER  -