The Flatiron School is a place where it gives people of all ages and backgrounds an opportunity to explore the wonderful world of code. In 2015, the Flatiron School partnered up with Karlie Kloss in order to launch the “Kode with Karlie” scholarship. There were over 100+ application and there were only 21 girls across the country that can receive free tuition to attend the school’s Introduction to Software Engineering course. This gave an opportunity to young women to have the access to resources where it can help them to become future leaders in the technology industry. These videos were a wonderful marketing tool for the Flatiron School, “Kode with Karlie” scholarship and promoting STEM to young women. Not to mention, it encourages young …show more content…
women to explore computer programming by challenging gender stereotypes within the STEM field. Looking at both of these videos, Karlie tries to create to close the job gap and gender-gap in tech where it empowers women to become professional developers. In the United States, there is an underrepresentation of females in computer science and it has fewer than 20% of all PhD in Computer Science that are females (Leslie, Cimpian, Meyer and Freeland 262).
Looking at the Leslie, Cimpian, Meyer and Freeland’s study, it has proving that individuals’ beliefs on what is “required for success in an activity vary in their emphasis on fixed, innate talent” can “account for the distribution of gender gaps across the entire academic spectrum” (Leslie, Cimpian, Meyer and Freeland 262). At a young age, females believe they do not have the talent or skills for computer programming from their beliefs due to the macrosystem. In this case, there are not that many females in the computer-programming field in college. According to Moss-Racusin, Molenda, and Cramer’s study, it has shown there is gender bias in STEM fields when they had “both female and male faculty members viewed the male student as more competent than the identical female student” (Moss-Racusin, Molenda and Cramer 1). Our society has the belief that males are more dominant than females due to the stereotypes they have deal with for the past decades. In the videos, Karlie describes coding as “a creative, innovative and imaginative activity” where it can challenge numerous girls view on STEM fields. At the beginning, young females believe that they cannot pursue in the STEM field because of their incapability to understand the information; however, it presents the idea that coding is possible from listening to the idea that coding is a way of self-expression rather than a task that cannot be
complete. The biggest influence for young females’ belief on STEM field is based on their exposure to advertisements. In this case, it highlights on the idea of segregation of males and females in the professional fields in science and engineering. Looking at the science advertisements, the percentage of white men dominant with 87.1 percent compared to white women (Barbercheck 122). Not to mention, there are numerous advertisements that presents different stereotypes on women. As male are more dominate in the STEM field, females tend to have a feeling that they are lower than the man’s position. With the Flatiron School creating a commercial with Karlie, they were able to give a sense of confidence to the audience about the program. The program depicted Karlie as a hero by guiding the students to achieve and do better on their projects and by tutoring them. With the image of her being a superhero, it promotes the young female viewers that they are also capable of learning code just like men. As a female coder, she challenges the viewers’ belief, that only men are capable of programing, to inspire them to challenge the norm of society. There are two videos aiming at the same challenge beliefs about gender in STEM field. In 2015 video, Karlie presents herself as “a model, ballerina, and a cookie expert.” As in the 2016 video, she presents herself as “a fashion model and a student.” This demonstrates that women can be in the STEM field even if they are in the male dominant career field. Furthermore, there were no shifts in cultural expectations from the first and second video. With Karlie being portray as a feminine character in both the videos, it gave the female audience a mentor who they can look up to and follow in her footsteps into the STEM field. Even though the STEM field is defined as a male’s dominancy, women felt as if they had to change their own beliefs and characteristics to better fit the male dominate workspace. Looking at Karlie’s past and present hobbies, she is very appealing to females who are feminists and who likes to code. With these videos, it gave insight that coding is a predominantly male career field, but Karlie showed the female audience that there are no boundaries to a “male dominant field.” The video created by Flatiron School and Karlie, it has challenges our initial beliefs of gender roles within the STEM fields. It provides examples of what the Flatiron School and the “Kode with Karlie” scholarship can offer to young women. For example, it presents women can learn how to code with no problem like men and they do not need to lose their diligent in order to pursue in the STEM field. If Karlie continues to portray herself as the feminine character and having other young females to speak up for them, it will make this particular intervention even better. This will encourage millions of young women around the world to do what they love without dealing with gender stereotypes. With Karlie’s story of learning to code, it impacts peoples’ belief about STEM stereotypes where it demonstrates women are capable of learning science with the resources they have. Young women are encourage to pursue in the STEM field and to close the gender gap that had occur for the past decades, including having a role in shaping the future for the better.
...roblems of integration. If the science world takes advantage of undiscovered female talent, science as a whole will benefit greatly. For example, the original group of ENIAC programmers consisted of 6 women. In 1946, these women helped to develop the first operating stored-program computer.6 If female talent such as this goes to waste because of social neglect, the science world will never know what possible discoveries that could have been made with the help of women. If Dr. Djerassi is accurate with his examples of discrimination, the science world should take note of these problems and attempt to solve them.
STEM, also known as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, is the field that is advancing at a rapid rate. Within STEM, there are many occupations across the four fields. As years go on, more and more people start to have a growing interest in STEM, but this can’t be said for women. Women almost take up half of the workforce, but when it comes to STEM, women only take about 24%, almost half of the women aren’t participating in STEM. The numbers continue to get worse. From 2000 - 2009, the numbers have remained at a constant 24%. At this rate, employers could potentially see a decline in women’s representation, but there have been efforts to change this rate (Beede et al par. 6). This could mean disastrous problems in the world as more problems will arise and there’s nothing to be done because companies are non-diverse and
I chose the movie clip entitled “King Kong”. It’s from the movie “Training Day” starring Denzel Washington. Training Day is a movie that follows a corrupted detective’s day to day mischief as he schools a rookie cop. Training Day depicts a product of the matchup between screenwriter David Ayer, who grew up in South Central Los Angeles, and director Antoine Fuqua, who grew up on the rough side of Pittsburgh. Both Ayer and Fuqua are highly familiar with the highly intensified relationship between police and criminals.
In the article “When Women Stopped Coding”, David Greene and Steve Henn from National Public Radio speak about the gender occupational differences in the field of computer science (). The field of computer science is currently dominated by men, but the number of women in this occupation had been sufficiently strong in the past until the percentage significantly dropped in 1984 (). Steve Henn explained that reason behind the drop of women in computer science was because of social factors. Henn gave his first example by speaking about a woman named Patty Ordonez. Ordonez was extremely smart in high school but when she entered Johns Hopkins for computer science, she began to struggle in class (). Her struggle was not due to her own intelligence
Promoting gender equity in STEM courses in high school is a crucial step in the direction of postsecondary achievement in related careers. But all too often, students Students are often afraid to try something new and of failing in front of others. Students who chronically under-perform in math and science, thinking they are not competent to excel in these subjects, are at risk of giving up.
We have all watched the School House Rock Videos in elementary where they break down concepts in a fun and easy way to understand. In this particular video it starts out with a bill “sitting on capitol hill” then proceeds to sing why and how it arrived there. The bill was an idea thought up by a group of people. These people than proceed to “call” a congressmen and he writes up the “bill” ad presents it to congress, thus the birth of the bill. After this the bill goes to committee while a group of congressmen discuss and debate if they should pass this bill on to become a law. Committee is where most bills die out and don’t move on. The bill then moves on to the House of Representatives where it is voted on again. If the House of Representatives
“…the best way to ensure they can do this is to offer a decent, broad-based education in the early years” (Keneally). There are many instances of the use of code, and there are many high paying jobs that are in need of people who are skilled in this area of work. Today, educators are now seeing that code is what makes up the world that we live in; furthermore, our children will need an improved coding background with our advancing world. Code is becoming the solution to our modern day problems, and "a basic life skill,” (Gow). Schooling has always been there to teach kids skills necessary to being successful when engaged in the workforce. Therefore, including this important part of the curriculum in schools should be enforced to ready our students for their life’s work. A poll study reported that an average of 76% agreed that teaching computer science is of the same importance as all regular core classes such as math and reading; however, in the U.S.A. only a fourth of the nation’s schools are offering these coding classes. Which are said to be "just as important" or "more important" than our traditional core classes; providing these classes are widening the potential of our youth, yet our education system shows us a lack in quick response (Busteed). Our education system should match what the nation’s future workforce requires, almost as if it’s a supply and demand system. Giving the students the opportunity to explore this field is highly important, at the very least schools should offer these classes as independent study. Students need options, and implementing coding poses for greater opportunities of the student and
Litriture has many opinons on this matter, and though all of them are valid opinons and facts this Litreiture Review will be adressing the sub-questions of “How is education impacting the shortage of women in STEM?”, and “How is Gender Bias Impacting the Shortage of Women in STEM?”. How these questions were adressed was through the overview and analyzation of multiple articles. One of these articles is from The University of Delaware, called “Gender Bias, Sterotypes, and STEM”, and their opinion on this matter was that Women leave STEM because of Gender Bias and Stereotypes. This was a statment also said by Science News. Yet another Author that is featured in this article was Kenneth Corbin, and compared to Science new and Univeristy of Deleware he said that “Early STEM Education Will Lead to More Women into IT.”
Furthermore, another gender stereotype that has a detrimental impact is education opportunities for women. The stereotype that characterizes women as caregivers rather than leaders further deprives women from continuing their education. This stereotype gives society an image that women work best in caring professionals such as nursing, social work, or teaching, and should not be the one who are involved in sciences or engineering fields. In other words, women are rarely depicted as computer savvy. This stereotype of women has negatively motivated women to make wrong career decisions. According to the American Association of University Women, men outnumber women in nearly every science, computing, and engineering field, and in some, such as
STEM is best known as science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. STEM for many years has been primarily seen as and stereotyped into a masculine work field. But as of recent years, while it expands, more and more women have been rising in these fields. However, there is still a tremendous gender gap between men and women in these fields and areas of work. The gender gap between men and women in STEM is alive and well. There is no denying that the gender gap between men and women in STEM is immense. But there instead are many sufficient reasons as to why there is such a huge gap between men and women within in fields. Some probable causes for the lack of women seen in these areas are biased towards women, unconscious bias girls receive
Within living memory, young women who have wanted to study engineering faced such dissent that in 1955, Penn State’s dean of engineering declared, “Women are NOT for engineering,” asserting that all but a few “unusual women” lacked the “basic capabilities” necessary to succeed in this profession (Bix par. 2). Although the number of women in social sciences and humanities has grown steadily, women remain underrepresented in science and engineering. Bureau of Labor Statistics states that “women remain underrepresented in engineering constituting only 10 percent of full-time employed engineers and 7.7 percent of engineering managers...” Although this is the case, social norms, culture and attitudes play a significant role in undermining the role of women in the aforementioned fields in addition to the gendered persistence and their individual confidence in their ability to fulfill engineering roles.
Engineering is a field dominated by men in today's society, for many reasons. When people think about engineering they think about men with glasses and never does a women come to mind. However, there have been many studies on the skills that keep women out of engineering as a career yet there is no proof that women cannot or do not possess the skills needed to be a successful engineer. Therefore, it is thought and stereotyped that women do not have the skills to have an engineering career. Due to the studies and stereotypes the questions then arise as to what makes a good engineer. Many have the same response to the question but not one skill can a women not posses. Women are stereotyped as being dumb just because they are pretty. If a women is not considered pretty she is often thought of as being a smarter than a pretty women . Over all the stereotypes there are some women who have beat the odds. These Women who do have the skills to enter into the field face bias everyday in the field because they are women not because they lack in the required skills. Unfortunately, these reasons that keep women from entering the field of engineering. There have been organizations that spend their time encouraging women to enter into engineering. The Organizations and societies have become so strong and so persuasive that even the company that makes Barbie is coming out with a computer engineering Barbie to attract young girls into the field. The push from the organizations and the drive of the women for success has helped some women to make a breakthrough in the field. Those few women who have overcome many challenges and obstacles in the field have to prove themselves to be looked at with even the slightest bit of respect. These women who ma...
The purpose of my research is to examine the shortage of females in the technology field. I will also research reasons why females chose not to take computer classes. I will support my theory with several examples from various studies. Furthermore, I will give several strategies that can be beneficial to female students and possibly increase the number of females in future computer classes. By the end of my research, the goal of encouraging young women who are interested in the technology field to pursue technology and succeed in the computer classes and world. This research will help me attempt to motivate other female students to at least gain more confidence and enough courage to learn more about the technological world we live in today.
Girls are seen as caring, nurturing, quiet, and helpful. They place other’s needs above their own. Girls get ahead by hard work, not by being naturally gifted. Boys are seen as lazy, but girls are seen as not capable. In class, teacher will call on boys more than they call on girls. Boys are seen as better at math and science; while girls are better at reading and art. This bias is still at work even out of the classroom. There are more males employed at computer firms than women. The ratio of male to female workers in STEM fields is 3-1. In college, more women major in the humanities than in the sciences. In education, women are often seen as lesser than; even though 65% of all college degrees are earned by women. Women are still often seen as needing to be more decorative than intellectual, as represented by the Barbie who included the phrase, “Math is hard!” and the shirt that JC Penneys sold that said, “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.” While there was a backlash on both items, it points out that there is a great deal of work to do on the educational gender bias to be
...cs. In the years, the country has started to realize the injustice it has been doing females in the field of mathematics. I believe that in the future these biases and disadvantages will be a thing of the past. Females have the mental capability to perform on an equal level with all respected and distinguished male mathematicians, but first social pressures and stereotypes must be eliminated.