What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics and What We Can Learn from Women's Colleges

Why are women underrepresented in Computer Science? Gender differences in stereotypes, self-efficacy, values, and interests and predictors of future CS course-taking and grades

“…These findings corroborate other research, which found that students at institutions where faculty are strongly student-centered as opposed to mainly research-oriented, tend to persist more in STEM majors (Abraham, 2006;Astin & Astin, 1992). Women prefer majors where the culture is focused on student-faculty interaction, which is not typical of many CS courses, at least when compared to the humanities or social sciences (Knight, Mappen, & Knight, 2011;Whitten et al, 2007). Students, particularly women, are more likely to drop out of physics lecture classes than more non-traditionally held physics class (Fencl & Scheel, 2006).…”

How Stereotypes Impact Women in Physics

“…These research efforts have documented gender differences in undergraduate achievement and sought to remedy them [6][7][8], focused on the work-life balance of women with children [9,10], and studied the experiences of women in physics who hold multiple underrepresented characteristics [11]. The work has primarily emphasized women's experiences as undergraduate students [12][13][14][15], with fewer articles tackling the issues of women in graduate programs [16][17][18][19].…”

Impressões De Estudantes Universitários Sobre a Presença Das Mulheres Na Ciência

“…Muitos pesquisadores afirmam que a principal causa da pequena participação feminina na física não está fundamentalmente no fato de elas serem desencorajadas ao ingresso neste meio acadêmico. A questão fundamental é que elas são verdadeiramente expulsas quando conseguem ingressar neste meio: em cada etapa da carreira acadêmica elas são "empurradas" para longe da física (Hilborn, 2003;Whitten, 2007) com os mecanismos de ascensão na carreira funcionando como verdadeiros filtros de gênero (Blickenstaff, 2005). O estudo realizado pelo American Institute of Physics (2005) (Rosemberg, 2001).…”