{"id":2420,"date":"2014-10-29T09:35:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T09:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2014-11-07T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T21:15:45","slug":"equality-in-the-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2014\/10\/29\/equality-in-the-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Equality in the Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/files\/2014\/10\/iop.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/files\/2014\/10\/iop.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"iop\" width=\"338\" height=\"51\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Education Scotland Sciences 3-18 impact report stated as an \u2018aspect for development\u2019 in Scottish Sciences was that \u2018staff in secondary schools need to recognise and act on gender imbalance in physics and the biology where it exists\u2019<br \/>\nTo support Science departments action this as part of their development needs The Institute of Physics (IOP) has produced a support pack that supports teachers in planning to encourage increased participation of girls studying Physics.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iop.org\/education\/teacher\/support\/girls_physics\/action_pack\/page_41739.html\">https:\/\/www.iop.org\/education\/teacher\/support\/girls_physics\/action_pack\/page_41739.html<\/a><br \/>\nThe misconceptions amongst some teachers regarding the implementations of addressing such imbalance is &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211;\tthat this would be at the detriment of boys into Physics, which is not the case as these programmes are looking at an increase in girls on top of existing numbers, not as a balance of existing class numbers<br \/>\n&#8211;\tFocussing on Girls is in itself gender biased.  These programmes are about how teaching pedagogy can improve perceptions of the subject amongst girls without affecting the perceptions of boys.  In short, teaching pedagogy in Physics education has in past been biased towards the interests and needs of boys without intending to do so.<br \/>\nSome stats \u2013<br \/>\n5% of young people who took up modern apprenticeships in STEM careers last year via Skills Development Scotland were girls. (Scottish Resource Centre for Women in SET (2010))<br \/>\n73% of female STEM graduates do not continue in STEM careers in comparison to 48% of male STEM graduates. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalsoced.org.uk\/cms\/files\/advice-papers\/inquiry\/women_in_stem\/tapping_talents.pdf\">http:\/\/www.royalsoced.org.uk\/cms\/files\/advice-papers\/inquiry\/women_in_stem\/tapping_talents.pdf<\/a>)<br \/>\nIf gender equality in Sciences is part of your local, school or Science departmental improvement plans and you would like advice and support to use the resources then please contact Alison McLure of the IOP, Alison.McLure@iop.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Scotland Sciences 3-18 impact report stated as an \u2018aspect for development\u2019 in Scottish Sciences was that \u2018staff in secondary schools need to recognise and act on gender imbalance in physics and the biology where it exists\u2019 To support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2014\/10\/29\/equality-in-the-sciences\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43781,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4758,4753,608,4754,705,6246,84],"tags":[1217,674324,4835],"class_list":["post-2420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curriculum-area","category-curriculum-levels","category-sciences","category-secong","category-senior-phase","category-stemcentralinmotion","category-third","tag-physics","tag-sciences","tag-skills-for-learning-life-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2420\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}