Based on existing research, there are three key things middle level educators can do to encourage more girls to engage in STEM courses: adopt a growth mindset,
provide female role models / mentors from STEM careers, and provide out - of - school time (OST) programs that are gender specific.
Not exact matches
These
role models will share stories from their personal and professional journeys to leadership,
provide insights on future trends impacting the food industry, as well as talk about skill sets necessary for current and future generations of
female executives to advance to boardrooms and the C - suites.
The college has also tried to
provide more
role models and mentoring for
female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more
female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.
Their sister, Millie (Riley Keough), does hair and helps
provide a better
female role model for Jimmy's daughter, who is largely being raised by her mother (Katie Holmes), who is clearly sad to be living as a kept woman with a kind - but - doofy local car dealership magnate (David Denman).
Various women are portrayed as «trophies» for men, or they are simply background «eye candy,»
providing very negative
female role models.
Providing diverse
role models as a starter activity has been proven to improve attainment of
female and BME students in STEM subjects.
«Gateshead College is doing a fantastic job of combatting this by
providing inspirational
female role models and events which introduce girls to STEM and the range of career options in the sector.»
Other aims include
providing strong teenage
role models, including
female science students and encouraging more pupils, especially girls, to opt for science.
[FN29] In type 2 cases (
female - initiated violence), fathers should be encouraged to pursue primary custody of their children; [FN30] in type 3 cases (male - controlled interactive violence), both parents are poor
role models, but «the parent who can better
provide a violence - free environment should be considered as the potential primary caretaker for the child,» [FN31] while in type 4 cases (separation and postdivorce violence), «a range of custody plans, including joint physical custody, are appropriate.»
Positive male foster carers
provide a
role model which is not just stereotypically beneficial for a male child or young person but also
female young people and children.