Is Gender Bias For College Aid?

We are encouraged to be creative and hone our skills in an area of interest through these programs in STEM. Similar to having a major in college, students at a magnet school have a specialized area that they can take classes in, along with the basic academic courses. The senior internships allow for a deeper, hands-on, understanding of a topic that we are deciding to dedicate our lives to. Wheeler’s courses are well designed to challenge and guide students, allowing them to excel in the future. Students who are in this program are encouraged to regard events from many points of view and be more open minded, advancing us in life by interactions and communications.

Nancy Gibbs discusses in her article titled “College Confidential” that women are now not able to get into private colleges due to their being too many women excelling in school and creating uneven gender ratios in classes. Seeing women do so well and trying to get into colleges is a bright spot, however the men being outclassed by the women is the problem with the possible new gender gap. Women should not be punished by not getting into colleges just because of the underachievement of male students trying to get into private college. Well educated women should not be punished by being declined into their school of choice due to the results of men in school.

The University of Maryland- Baltimore County has designed a STEM BUILD program to help encourage diversity among STEM students.

Equal Access to Higher Education: Believe it or not, until the 1970’s, some colleges and universities refused to accept women into their institutions. Why? The answer’s simple: education officials at the time

Women have pushed forward in the struggle for equality. Today women are staples in the professional world. More women are attending college than men as proved in recent studies. Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1979, and on graduate school campuses since 1984. More American women than men have received bachelor's degrees every year since 1982. Even here on Haverford's campus, the Admissions Office received more applications from women for early decision candidacy than men for the eighth straight year. The wage gap is slowly decreasing and the fight for proper day care services along with insurance coverage for birth control pills are passionate issues for women across America.

Women are obtaining more then half of the bachelor degrees earned in America but that has not limited the earning and abilities of the working class man. Phyllis Rosser’s, Too Many Women in College? (2005) is used to expose the still continuing gender issues in higher education. It exposes the issue that yes, there are more women then men in undergrad and master’s programs but men are still outnumbering women in doctoral programs as well as higher paying fields of study (engineering, computer science, business). Still regardless of education women will still face the income gap. Comparing Lee’s and Shaw’s conclusion to the study by Investing in Futures Public Higher Education in America, Women in Higher Education both sources have come to the conclusion that women make up over half of students enrolled in undergrad and their is an uneven representation of women in math and science based degree programs. Janet Lee’s and Susan M. Shaw’s, Women’s Voices Feminist Visions Classic and Contemporary Readings is an accredited and well developed source that highlights the development of women’s

As discussed in a recent essay by Saul Kaplan “The Plight of Young Males”, there is a serious academic gender achievement gap in the United States and as I will discuss, around the world. Young women are doing significantly better than young men, and the results are shocking. In the latest census, males make up 51 percent of the total U.S. population between the ages of 18-24. Yet only 40 percent of today’s college students are men. Since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees. In the last ten years, two million more women graduated from college than men. As Kaplan reveals, the average eleventh-grade boy writes at the level of the average eighth-grade girl. He also states that women dominate high school honor rolls and now make up more than 70 percent of class valedictorians. Kaplan says, “I am happy to see women succeeding. But can we really afford for our country’s young men to fall so far behind,” (733)?

My motivation to do a presentation regarding minorities studying STEM majors and working on NASA is to encourage minorities students to apply and look for resources in their schools like scholarships, grants or fellowships programs to study STEM majors and to become engineering, scientist or mathematicians, etc.

The STEM academy is an educational program at Plymouth Canton Educational Park that includes one class each year of high school, and all other required classes are geared toward STEM. This created a small community within an extremely large school that I enjoy, because I have made very close friends who share my love for the sciences and encourage me to grow and advance in my passions.

As I previously stated, the genders are equal by law. Many years ago several laws were passed making discrimination by gender illegal. The most important was title IX which states that any federally funded education program shall give equal opportunity to both men and women. This includes scholarships, extracurricular activities such as

I believe this program is addressing the need for minorities in science because there is an imbalance of minorities represented in the science field. This

They were then told they were about to receive information about each of the applicants, and asked to rate how likely they would be to hire them and at what position/salary. They were then given the three vinaigrettes. The first consisted of the qualifications of a male, the second a female, and the third gender ambiguous. All participants then provided how likely they were to hire that person and their job/salary. All groups were then provided with a manipulation check to make sure they were attentive. The experimental group was then presented with the educational intervention. This included four figures with information about the gender wage gap (Figure 1), higher hirability rate and better mentoring potential for men than women (Figure 2), men’s dominance in STEM jobs (Figure 3), and the disadvantages this implicit gender bias gives to women (Figure 4). They then completed the Implicit Associations Test (IAT) to provide data on bias, and the control completed this right after they were presented with the manipulation check.

Young women are now more likely than young men to graduate from upper secondary programmes in almost all OECD countries, a reversal of the historical pattern.

Universities give women and minorities special consideration because, throughout history, women and racial minorities have been given the disadvantage of applying to and getting into colleges. The unequal consideration of women and minorities for spots going to or teaching at colleges have led to the creation of higher learning

universities has been falling behind the other gender in recent years, which may trigger several