STEM education stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. Even though these subjects are quite commonly available for women, you’ll not find many women pursuing STEM education. A recent report by UNESCO titled “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and women’s education in STEM, depicted only 35% of women pursuing STEM education in their lives.
While most STEM careers are regarded as the jobs of the future, we need more women, in larger quantities, to be pursuing stem education and becoming a part of the future workforce. A major reason women don’t take STEM education is the cultural and social barriers that society places before women who idealize STEM education. These barriers are often ideological and excessively biased towards women’s capacities to manage heavy load subjects like STEM.
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This Women’s Day, we celebrate the women in STEM for #breakingthebias, moving ahead, and not bothering about social perspectives about women pursuing a career in STEM. Such are the women that offer hardy and self-denying role models for future women to pursue a career in STEM.
Here’s a quick recap of women’s most recent contribution to STEM.
Christina Koch
Koch completed her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from North Caroline State University. Koch is a celebrated astronaut and engineer associated with NASA for the longest time. In 2019, Koch was one of the first women to head for a spacewalk along with fellow astronaut Jessica Meir. Included in the Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, Koch symbolizes timeless strength and valor for women to come.
Jade Raymond
Raymond is a Canadian video game developer known for assisting the development of the monumental video game Assassin’s Creed and Watch Dogs series. Raymond is a computer science major super fond of helping, working, and assisting as a programmer. After working as a programmer for Sony, Raymond later worked on games The Mighty Quest for the Epic Loot and Watch Dogs. Raymond has been recognized for her services in computer sciences and the gaming industry by Variety and the Fun and Serious Game Festival.
Katherine Johnson
If not for Katherine Johnson’s immaculate calculations of the orbital mechanisms, NASA wouldn’t have been to lead its spaceflights to space. Johnson handled complex calculations at work and efficiently used computers to save and use stored data for future purposes. Johnson worked with NASA on many different programs and helped with complicated orbital calculations, emergency return mechanisms, and accurate launch window timing.
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