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JM Bystydzienski, M Eisenhart… - The Career …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library

High school is not too late: Developing girls' interest and engagement in engineering careers.

Broadening participation informal stem education

Bystydzienski, Eisenhart

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Although experts increasingly call for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education to begin in middle and elementary schools, a 3‐year intervention beginning with high‐achieving female high school sophomores demonstrated that young women can develop a serious interest in engineering in high school. However, subsequent post‐high school study of the participants showed that interest in engineering was not enough for lower‐income minority women to pursue engineering in college. It should be noted that their …

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