DC Francis, KG Wilkins-Yel, KM Paul, AV Maltese - STEM Education 2.0, 2019 - brill.com

Underrepresentation of Women and Students of Color in STEM.

Stem career programs

Maltese, Wilkins-Yel

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Excerpt

The underrepresentation of women and racialized minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines endures. In response, research, policy initiatives, STEM Enrichment programs, school and teacher education programs, and after-school activities were implemented to address this need. Nonetheless, women and people of color remain markedly underrepresented in many aspects of STEM and studies often fail to discuss the interplay of the institutional, societal, and systemic contributors to this …