Extrinsic Learning, Corporate Streaming, and Ungrounded Voting: The Role of STEM Schooling in the Political Socialization of Asian Canadian Youths

Abstract

This ethnographic study analyzes a collection of schooling, childhood, and migration narratives from Asian Canadian youths who have entered careers related to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The study centres on a group of

Saudi women STEM pioneers: penetrating the mud ceiling

“…In her discussion of why Silicon Valley treats STEM women so awful, Mundy (2017) quoted an informant as saying, “We’re going to have to go through this mud together.” When using a flamingo metaphor (they thrive in mud flats) while discussing women STEM leaders, Randell and Yerbury (2020) reflected on mud’s relatively hostile environment (unseen under the water) and said it was not “too much of a stretch to consider that [STEM] female leaders [must also] survive and thrive in [the mud] – what can be perceived as difficult circumstances” (p. 7). In his doctoral work about STEM women, Bing (2021 , p. 161) referred to an ancient Chinese adage: “going through mud without getting stained.” This could refer to STEM women engaging with STEM men (i.e., going through the mud) without being thwarted, stymied, and defeated (i.e., the old boys’ club).…”