Girls in STEM: Is It a Female Role Model Thing?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Gonzalez ◽  
Ruth Mateos de Cabo ◽  
Milagros Sáinz
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Female Role Model

Yes, I can! – A Field Experiment on Female Role Model Effects in Entrepreneurship

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 12081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Aline Bechthold ◽  
Laura Rosendahl Huber
Keyword(s):  
Field Experiment ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Female Role Model

Stereotype threat, anxiety, instructor gender, and underperformance in women

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Kapitanoff ◽  
Carol Pandey
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Retention Rate ◽  
Specific Class ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Female Role Model ◽  
And Performance

Whatever their major, students are often required to take at least one course in statistics. After graduation, statistics is a key skill in numerous workplace settings. However, for many, it is a particularly difficult course. One factor that may play a role is the lingering misconception that women are not as good as men in mathematics subjects such as statistics. Belief in this gender stereotype can lead women to avoid taking this class and ultimately could contribute to their underrepresentation in many professions. Instructor gender may also be a factor that affects student performance. This study examined whether a female role model would reduce the detrimental effects of a gender/mathematics stereotype threat in women and improve their academic performance and retention rate. Several types of anxiety were measured to determine what aspects of anxiety might be most relevant to stereotype threat. For men, anxiety and performance were not related to the gender of their instructor or endorsement of the gender/mathematics stereotype. For women, mathematics anxiety and anxiety-about-the-specific-class were related to their endorsement of the stereotype. Having a female instructor initially led to higher rates of underperformance on the first examination among women as compared to men. Continued interaction with a female role model, however, reduced this deficit for women by the end of the semester. Understanding this process may help educators better prepare women for success in both academia and the professional world.

Effects of Role Models from Films on Short-Term Ratings of Intent, Interest, and Self-Assessment of Ability by High School Youth: A Study of Gender-Stereotyped Academic Subjects

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Ziegler ◽  
Heidrun Stoeger
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Deterrent Effect ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Female Role Model ◽  
Positive Effect

The effects of cinematic female role models on self-confidence in own abilities, interest, and academic elective intents of secondary school pupils were analyzed in two studies. In Study 1 the participants ( N = 283) were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups. Each group watched a film after which they completed a questionnaire. In Film 1 the lead female character demonstrated conventional female characteristics and was discernibly untalented in mathematics and the natural sciences, in Film 2 the lead female character did not exhibit conventional female characteristics and was gifted in mathematics and the natural sciences, and in Film 3 the lead female character was typically female and gifted in mathematics and the natural sciences. Film 3, in which the lead female character not only contradicted the stereotype of women not being gifted at mathematics and the natural sciences but also should not have elicited subtyping processes, turned out to be effective among girls with High prior interest and boys in general. In contrast, this film had unexpected effects among girls with Low prior interest. Instead of showing, as expected, merely weaker effects than those found for the other groups, this role model even had a deterrent effect on girls with Low prior interest. In Study 2 ( N=55) an investigation assessed whether Film 3 could exercise a similarly positive effect on female pupils with Low prior interest were a female role model to depict constructive coping with difficulties in mathematics and the natural sciences prior to the presentation of the film. Results show this is possible.

Kobiecość a płeć żeńska. Komediopisarki dwudziestolecia międzywojennego wobec dyskursu emancypacyjnego

Wielogłos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Joanna Warońska
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Dramatic Works ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Female Role Model ◽  
Women’S Groups

Femininity and the Female Gender: Female Comedy Writers of the Interwar Period in Relation to the Emancipation Discourse The article presents an analysis of selected interwar comedies written by women – Marcelina Grabowska, Maria Morozowicz-Szczepkowska, Maria Pawlikowska- -Jasnorzewska and Magdalena Samozwaniec – and dealing with issues related to the emancipation discourse: motherhood, abortion, shaping a new female role model, and relationships in women’s groups. The heroines of those plays, increasingly liberated and self-aware, demanded the rights traditionally assigned to men, while trying to free themselves from widespread stereotypes. The authors of the dramatic works used various comedic techniques and traditions: satirical, ludic, or Young Poland’s “black comedy.” Comedy influenced the construction of the depicted world and its individual elements as well as the linguistic forms. The amusing heroines became negative characters, going beyond the limits of femininity accepted by the society or postulated by the authors, and their awkwardness evoked compassion in the audience or revealed the malfunctioning of social institutions.

scholarly journals Counteracting gender stereotypes in STEM with a female role model intervention

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keryn Florance ◽  
Heather Winskel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Female Role Model

scholarly journals Girls in STEM: Is It a Female Role-Model Thing?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana González-Pérez ◽  
Ruth Mateos de Cabo ◽  
Milagros Sáinz
Keyword(s):  
Role Model ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Female Role Model

scholarly journals Mary in Jewish Tradition

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Virgin Birth ◽  
Female Role Model

Since Jews rejected the miraculous account of Jesus' birth, they assumed that Mary conceived through illicit sexual activity, sometimes expressed in vulgar terms. Some Jews refuted the possibility of virgin birth by use of philosophical arguments, and others offered scriptural arguments against Mary's perpetual virginity. Despite generally negative views of Mary, there is evidence of an attraction to the idea of a semi-divine female role model and it is possible that certain Kabbalistic interpretations of the divine presence have Marian overtones.***Maria na Tradição Judaica***Uma vez que os judeus rejeitaram o relato milagroso do nascimento de Jesus, eles assumiram que Maria era concebida através de atividade sexual ilícita, às vezes expressa em termos vulgares. Alguns judeus refutaram a possibilidade do nascimento virginal por meio de argumentos filosóficos e outros ofereceram argumentos bíblicos contra a virgindade perpétua de Maria. Apesar das opiniões geralmente negativas acerca de Maria, há evidências de uma atração pela idéia de um modelo feminino semi-divino e é possível que certas interpretações cabalísticas da presença divina tenham mapeamentos marianos.

scholarly journals The Effects of a Female Role Model on Academic Performance and Persistence of Women in STEM Courses

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 258-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah D. Herrmann ◽  
Robert Mark Adelman ◽  
Jessica E. Bodford ◽  
Oliver Graudejus ◽  
Morris A. Okun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Women In Stem ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Female Role Model
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