microrobert
04-18-2012, 04:40 PM
One More Leak In The Pipeline For Women In Tech: Teacher Bias
Analysis of national education data reveals that high school math teachers have an unjustifiable bias against white females, furthering the struggle of girls to advance in the STEM pipeline towards high-earning technical careers.
“This speaks to the presence of a perhaps subtle yet omnipresent stereotype in high school classrooms: Math, comparatively speaking, is just easier for white males than it is for white females,” wrote researchers Catherine Riegle-Crumb and Melissa Humphries in the article.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/04/17/leak-in-the-pipeline-for-women-in-tech-math-teacher-bias/
Analysis of national education data reveals that high school math teachers have an unjustifiable bias against white females, furthering the struggle of girls to advance in the STEM pipeline towards high-earning technical careers.
“This speaks to the presence of a perhaps subtle yet omnipresent stereotype in high school classrooms: Math, comparatively speaking, is just easier for white males than it is for white females,” wrote researchers Catherine Riegle-Crumb and Melissa Humphries in the article.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/meghancasserly/2012/04/17/leak-in-the-pipeline-for-women-in-tech-math-teacher-bias/