International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrated in Saskatchewan
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Women make up 50 percent of Canada’s workforce and a recent study from 3M Canada showed that 83 per cent of women face barriers while pursuing STEM education.
February 11 marks International Day of Women and girls in science, and the Saskatchewan Science Centre is bringing attention to women in the profession.
The science centre’s 2023 “Girls in STEM” conference took place this week, in an event aimed at helping young women understand that anyone can be a scientist, coder, architect or engineer.
“The idea is to get young girls to meet women in STEM and get inspired by them,” said Sandra Baumgartner, the Saskatchewan Science Centre CEO. “The chance to listen and learn to see if science and engineering is something they want to pursue,”
Those at the science centre say evidence suggests that while in school, girls perform on par with boys when it comes to grades and education within science.
But as time goes on the gender gap grows and girls tend to drop out from science, technology, engineering and math after school.
Women make up 50 percent of Canada’s workforce and a recent study from 3M Canada showed that 83 per cent of women face barriers while pursuing STEM education.
“It really does come from the formative years,” Penny Wise, the president of 3M Canada said when discussing the challenges women face stem education. “Whether you’re in elementary school and people say ‘girls aren’t good at math’ or ‘girls aren’t good at science’ and those myths perpetuate and build upon themselves.”
Wise says solutions to these barriers can be found through mentorship and visible representation.
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