Property News · August 13, 2016

Science and tech have a gender problem – these programs want to change that


Groups are tackling the lack of women in the US working in Stem – science, tech, engineering and math – fields by getting young girls to put on the lab coat It’s mid-summer but instead of running around outside catching Pokémon or enjoying the sunshine, 20 teenage girls are sitting around a table at Mount Sinai Hospital. They watch quietly as Dr James Iatridis rolls a cart packed with bones to the front of the room.“That hand and a foot came from a real person,” he says. Bursts of chatter fill the room that has been largely silent up till now. “Maybe I didn’t have to share that,” Iatridis adds as an afterthought before launching into an explanation of his research into back pain. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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