Complicating Privilege, Gender, and Inclusion: Girls Addressing Equity in STEM

• In Event: Roundtable Session 53
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Research on Race, Gender, and Leadership Development of Youth of Color

Abstract

Gaining access to pathways in STEM fields is difficult for underrepresented minority students and women (Gasbarra & Johnson, 2008; Wajcman, 2010). Research on STEM education has elucidated historical, institutional, and cultural factors that contribute to the lack of women and minorities in scientific and technical fields, and identified strategies for supporting students once they have chosen to pursue STEM pathways. In this paper, we address the notion of elementary students' ability to reason about privilege, gender, and inclusion.

Authors

• Sarah Taylor Hug, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Heather L. Thiry, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Suzanne Eyerman, Fairhaven Research and Evaluation