AlterConf NYC 2017: Stem in Single-Gender Education, Stereotype Threat, and... by Elizabeth Yalkut
Channel: Alter Conf
Date: 2017-09-11

Stem in Single-Gender Education, Stereotype Threat, and Plugging the Pipeline by Elizabeth Yalkut

The prejudices, and effects, about women's abilities in STEM fields — xkcd.com/385 — linger. You'd think that in a historically single-gender school, the stereotype threat effect would vanish, or at least lessen. And while that is statistically true, I want to talk about my experience after nine years in three different single-gender schools, and the implications for how we talk about "the pipeline."