African American Women in STEM Education: Microaggressions From Pre-K–12 Classrooms to Higher Education

• In Event: 29.074 - Women, Girls, and STEM

Abstract

This project examines the critical issues of stereotypes and gender bias that face students, particularly women, of color in higher education and into their careers, as well as the lack of representation of women of color in higher education STEM related disciplines. Interviews with three, African American females from their start as undergraduate students in Biology, into graduate programs, and eventually with careers as science educators in public science education classrooms, as well as a review of current literature, highlights the need for women of color within STEM disciplines, as well as strides that have been made toward increasing the number of both females and males of color in STEM related areas.

Authors

• Susan Ferguson Martin, University of South Alabama

• Andre M. Green, University of South Alabama

• Melissa D Dean, University of South Alabama