{"id":129157,"date":"2024-03-21T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/the-need-for-women-in-stem-is-greater-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T07:10:53","slug":"the-need-for-women-in-stem-is-greater-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/the-need-for-women-in-stem-is-greater-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The need for women in STEM is greater than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129157\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nDespite some recent advances, women make up only 35 percent of the workforce in science, technology, engineering and maths (the so-called STEM professions). Currently, the greatest disparities occur in engineering and computer sciences. According to innovator Christina DiMarino, who an engineering professor at Virginia Tech, now is the time to flip the script and she explains why it is so important that education for women and underrepresented groups about STEM fields starts early in life.<\/p>\n<p>DiMarino says in a statement that the absence of women in the field is something she sees regularly, adding: \u201cSTEM career environments that have been cultivated by men over generations have struggled to adapt to be more inclusive for women and other underrepresented individual.\u201d However, DiMarino strikes a note of optimism with: \u201cThere have been strong pushes for increasing diversity in STEM, but cultivating that representative community is going to take time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As to why improved gender representation is necessary, DiMarino explains: \u201cEngineers aim to address critical problems facing humanity and if the engineers themselves are not diverse, then it can be difficult for them to identify problems that other groups may face and come up with solutions that are suitable for these other groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The benefits include having more diversity among engineers which brings broader perspectives and experiences, and this can result in more effective solutions. Yet to achieve this, DiMarino indicates it is important that women are provided equitable opportunities and resources as their peers in an academic setting as well as the engineering workplace. This means starting at the ground level in the classrooms of local schools by creating a pipeline and fostering educational programs early on in life for students<\/p>\n<p>Role models can help to achieve this, says DiMarino: \u201cHaving people in positions of influence that will advocate for women to be considered for high-visibility opportunities, promotions, or assignments is key in career advancement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DiMarino also suiggests the best place to start is with the youngest generations. Here she observes: \u201cIntroducing STEM fields and topics at a young age is critical to helping students better understand the vast opportunities,\u201d DiMarino said. \u201cI also think that sharing the great accomplishments of diverse historical and present-day figures in STEM is important because it shows that there are people that look like them and may come from similar backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/tech-science\/the-need-for-women-in-stem-is-greater-than-ever\/article\">DJ<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/the-need-for-women-in-stem-is-greater-than-ever\/\">The need for women in STEM is greater than ever<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11189,606,607,608,568],"class_list":["post-129157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-stem","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}