Personal Narrative: My AP Physics C Class

CV: It is my belief that's true. That Nationwide less men are going to college than women so we have more women. So as we advance through possibly in the beginning I don't know if the women were week or not I can't remember specifically but I can tell you a lot of the women are strong. Just like I guess a lot of the men are strong etc. So I see the women as contributing to the campus, to the academic environment. Sometimes easier to engage women in discussion and class at least in my classes it is

“ ‘Change the conversation’ about engineering, ” as the dean’s message states, “we are helping dismantle stereotypes about engineers — what they do, who they are, what they look like.” I was deeply touched by these encouraging words when I first read it on the Viterbi School of Engineering website. As a woman in science and engineering who have been through many stereotypes towards women, my belief is consistent with dean’s message: “this must change.” I’m so happy and glad to have acceptance from a school that respects diversity and minority. I am writing this letter to express my sincere gratitude for the precious opportunity offered by USC School of Engineering. Thank you for offering me the admission

Only 45% of academics with female leading to the amount of female professors being just 22%. People believing that women shouldn’t have a good education didn’t just recently start, but it’s been a thing for years. “57 million children worldwide, including 31 million girls, are out of school and two thirds of illiterate adults are women. In developing countries, adolescent girls are more likely to drop-out of secondary school than boys, particularly in rural areas.” ( Right to Education Project). In most cases girls and women just don’t drop out of school because they don’t want to be there, but because they have to. Women are seen as the caretaker in many culture and we made to cook, clean, and take care of our families while the men go get jobs and provide. Men are seen as “stronger” and “smarter”. Many believe that females are suppose to be a being that’s sensitive, small, and very feminine, while men are strong, big, and extremely masculine. This isn’t the case, women SHOULD be able to be as masculine or feminine as they want while men SHOULD have the same

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.

The first I came to the US I had to start over and get a new degree because English wasn’t my first language, I have an accent different than Native American speakers. During my Pre college class at HCC I had to prepare for debate we were four students vs four students of my classmate, and the most important thing and funny happened in my life at that time we all four of my team members were foreigners and the other member team were native American. Before I came to class I prepared my part well I made search about my project, supporting my ideas with proof and pictures I was confident about myself and my team too. I had to seat with my team in front of the class, when the debate started and it was my turn to debate, I couldn’t find my words,

The underrepresentation of women in STEM is important to me because I am a woman who wants to work in a STEM field. I want to explore and study Biology and Physiology in order to discover the causes of death. I want to make a difference in helping to eradicate diseases or to bring closure to families by helping to solve crimes. I have taken upper-level STEM courses and was dismayed to find that my classmates were predominately male; males who were diametrically opposed to allowing females to lead experiments do so as this is how they have been educated and conditioned to accept as the

Over the course of history, advances made by women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) have been overshadowed and downplayed due to a male dominant culture in these fields. The primary reason for these fields being dominated by males is the way women have been forced into gender roles over the course of history. Women with ambition to build, create, and discover have been discouraged from following their passions and are instead told to focus on raising their children. This discrimination has hurt the overall progress in scientific communities as it has limited women in the resources available to them and has forced them to work in the shadows. Yet there has still been great progress in STEM made by women. Over the past

In his video, A Brief History of Sexism in Science, by Michio Kaku made a point that women can easily be shut out of the science field. He told a story of a woman who was not given the opportunity to succeed within her field. He brings up a good point that girls and women are often pushed out or not encouraged to purse science fields. Reading 6, Chilly Classrooms for Female Undergraduate Students, makes the case that female students are not given the educational equality that others are given. Women are often academically discouraged, favoring men over women, and discouraging women in front of male peers and faculty. There is also lack of representation within the field, so it is hard for women and other disadvantaged groups to get ahead, since

I got the chance to select an American college to study my civil engineering major. I had the option to choose from a diverse list of one hundred colleges, on which female colleges were included. Once I told my advisor I was interested on leadership and engineering she promptly specified I should apply to a specific female college. It looked interesting, I got amazed by the fact women were being scientists and great thinkers without the help of males. That situation was the opposite from my countries beliefs. Women was not capable for engineering or anything related to math.

Over the years, I have strived to learn and experience as much as possible. My extracurriculars and activities have given me the ability to grow as a person. I have become a better public speaker, which was achieved through my engineering capstone class where my partners and I were tasked with presenting in front of multiple crowds, of different

Ever since the study of mathematics and science has begun, women have been underrepresented in the STEM field. The STEM field is made up of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. There have been a lot of efforts to increase the number of women in STEM careers; however, men remain dominant in the field. For example, in 2015 women filled 47% of all U.S. jobs, but held only 24% of the STEM careers (Women in STEM, par. 3). Meaning that in 2015 men held 76% of all the STEM careers. The gap between men and women in STEM continues to widen and men continue to dominate the STEM field because the societal stereotype steers women away from STEM careers

According to a recent study, the United States has accounted for only eleven percent of all engineers to be women. This branches from only twenty percent of engineering bachelor’s degrees being given to women in the United States (Jones). However, even though this number is quite low, women still graduate at the same rates or even, and in some cases, even better than men with engineering degrees at the collegiate level (Orr). This shows that the causes for the gender gap do not have to do with the difficulty of the education needed to become an engineer. It is obvious that collegiate difficulty is not a problem here. Some underlying factors need to be focused on. Studies have also shown that women tend to stay in the engineering field more consistently as compared to men who leave the field at a higher percentage. However, this comparison is based with the knowledge that there are currently many more men than women who initially start out in the engineering field at the college level (Orr). So, on average, women tend to stick with the engineering field once they have decided that that is what they want to do with their life. Luckily,

Today some statistics show that women are out performing men in college according to Gary Stern in his article called the “College Enrollment Legs for Men as Women Continue to Make Gains” he states that “In some cases, the difference in gender composition of the total number of college students is staggering. California State universities report that in fall 2013, there were 217,000 females versus 175,000 men or 42,000 more females pursuing undergraduate degrees than males.” (Stern) This is an example of women taking advantage of the opportunity to receive good jobs and create a stable life for themselves.

Out of all the fields offered to incoming freshmen in college, I chose engineering. To me, it was an easy choice; I excelled in my high school STEM classes and I’m a problem-solver, which is essentially what an engineer is, just on a bigger scale. In those classes, I took pride in the fact that I was one of few females, and never felt like my gender affected my performance or my opportunities. It wasn’t until my civil engineering class that I noticed a change. As one of only two girls in the class, I wasn’t treated as an equal by my male classmates. I was faced with both comments on my shorts, body, and personal life, and lessened workload because I “wasn’t cut out for the manual labor.” I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that I was treated differently though, since only 25 percent of the labor force in STEM fields are women, and only 18-20 percent of engineering students are women. The numbers were, and still are against me,

Ever since I was a young kid I have always loved and excelled at math. Whenever I took a standardized test I was always in the 99th percentile. That love of numbers and equations has carried over to my senior year. Next quarter I will be taking the highest math class offered by my school (multivariable calculus) as well as a statistics class and also tutoring math students for 2 periods in both algebra and calculus. With this passion for math I knew that I wanted to major in something math related. Up until this year I wasn’t sure of the exact major I wanted. That all changed when I fell in love with statistics. I asked my teacher some majors that deal with a lot of statistics and she told me about majoring in actuarial science. The more