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-"high school boys outperformed girls on the 2016 SAT math test with an average score of 524 points compared to the average score of 494 for females"
-Adjusting for the much greater number of female high school students who took the 2016 SAT (875,342) compared to males (762,247), we could also determine that only 5.1% of female test-takers scored in the 700-800 point range on the SAT math test (45,068 total) compared to 9.4% of boys ( 71,999) who scored in the highest range."
-One possible explanation for the fact that high school boys consistently score higher on average than girls on the math SAT test and outnumbered girls by 1.60-to-1 for test scores on the high end (700-800 points) in 2016, would be that high school boys are better students on average than high school girls and are better prepared in mathematics than their female classmates."

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"James Damore was fired from Google after writing a 10-page memo citing women's "neuroticism" as a reason there are fewer female workers in high-stress jobs at the search giant. The lawsuit he filed Monday argues that Google was so overly concerned with filling gender and racial quotas that it was hurting male employees as well as potential male employees."

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"In looking at test scores across 67 countries and regions, Stoet and Geary found that girls performed about as well or better than boys did on science in most countries, and in almost all countries, girls would have been capable of college-level science and math classes if they had enrolled in them."

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Source 5 (Study says multiple factors work together to drive women away from STEM) Inside Higher ED

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Source 5 (Study says multiple factors work together to drive women away from STEM) Inside Higher ED

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-"Georgetown University researchers explored what drives women who entered a STEM major to switch to something else. Their findings, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, show that the answer is a complex combination of factors, including the environment, perception of the major and grades."
-"One of the reasons women might feel undue pressure in STEM fields might actually be because of how recruiting and mentoring is framed. Many times, those efforts actually end up reinforcing the idea that STEM is for men."

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Source 4 (How to Increase Female Representation In The STEM Field) Forbes.com

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Source 4 (How to Increase Female Representation In The STEM Field) Forbes.com

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-"Women are grossly underrepresented in the STEM field in the United States, making up only 24% of those employed in STEM occupations, based on a 2015 study."
-"The reported numbers for women of color is even more abysmal, with only 2.9% of Black women, 3.6% of Latinas, and 4.8% of Asian women earning STEM degrees in the United States."
-A 2018 Glassdoor report reveals that some of the highest paying jobs in America are those in the STEM industry and research indicates that even in these high-paying STEM occupations women earn less than their male counterparts."
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-"When comparing male and female students with the same credentials vying for the same campus laboratory job, male candidates were chosen over female candidates."
-"Textbooks discuss Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin but students are less familiar with women who made important contributions to the STEM field. If the organization has an internal newsletter that goes out, highlighting impactful women in STEM such as Gertrude B. Elion and Maria Goeppert-Mayer can be an effective strategy for inclusion."
-"Research indicates that in the SET (science, engineering, and technology) field, women report feelings of isolation, hostile male-dominated work environments, and lack of effective sponsors as factors that cause them to leave the industry."

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Source 3 (Why We Need Women In STEM) Inc.com

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Source 3 (Why We Need Women In STEM) Inc.com

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-"When women design new products or services, they bring a different perspective that too often hasn't been considered before.  That's true in any industry, but it's particularly notable in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics,"
-"Rather, we should care because the lack of women in STEM means we are lacking the perspectives of half the world's population (more or less). We should care because a male-centric view of science is just that--male centric. And the bottom line, no matter how hard we try to equalize things, is that men and women are different in fundamental ways."
-"As more women enter the fields of STEM, we are seeing the difference a women's perspective makes. For instance, engineer Surbhi Sarna of nVision is developing a technology to detect ovarian cancer and tube blockages, which would improve a century-old procedure that is painful to the patient."
-"Amy Sheng, a mom and bioengineer, is working on CellScope, which allows parents to use a smartphone attachment to diagnose children's ear infections. Leah Sparks and Katherine Bellevin have created Due Date Plus, a smart phone-enabled maternity program."

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Source 2 (How To Inspire More Young Women To Enter STEM in 2018) Forbes.com

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Source 2 (How To Inspire More Young Women To Enter STEM in 2018) Forbes.com

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-"women should look past their fears of entering a male-dominated field with hopes of making their own mark." -Camila Morocho, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Major, Rising Third Year
-"The lack of visible female role models continues to be a major problem. In my opinion though, the real problem is that the women working within STEM are hiding in plain sight. One way to overcome this would be to spotlight examples of actual women succeeding in STEM which could inspire young women by giving them real-world examples to model themselves after." -Emily Muggleton, Mechanical Engineering Major with a Minor in Aerospace, Rising Fourth Year
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Source 1 (STEM fields need to be more friendly to women) Creightonian.com

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Source 1 (STEM fields need to be more friendly to women) Creightonian.com

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-"The STEM fields are dominated by a male presence."
-"The overpowering masculine environment expresses a message that men are more welcome than women and diminishes interest, participation and performance of girls."
-"11.1 percent of physicists and astronomers are women, 22.7 percent of chemical engineers are women, 35.2 percent of chemists are women and 7.9 percent of mechanical engineers are women."
-"Jennifer Hunt of Rutgers University explored another area of STEM where women’s accomplishments are underdeveloped; patents. 5.5% of all commercial patent owners are women."
-"About 19 percent of software developers are women. This can mean the women miss opportunities for careers in fields."
-"She reasoned that the reason why women leave their STEM field is frequently connected to pay and promotion."

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1.) https://www.creightonian.com/opinion/article_61eefa70-e115-11e7-94a6-ab32165d6f05.html
2.) https://www.forbes.com/sites/moiraforbes/2018/01/04/how-to-inspire-more-young-women-to-enter-stem-in-2018/#1e6058dc1cd7
3.)https://www.inc.com/sue-williams/why-we-need-women-in-stem.html
4.)https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2018/10/16/how-to-increase-female-representation-in-the-stem-field/#6e1eb7df466a
5.) https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/29/study-says-multiple-factors-work-together-drive-women-away-stem
6.) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/

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Should women be more frequently encouraged to enter STEM fields?

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