Effect of providing gender equality information on students’ motivations to choose STEM

The social climate for women studying STEM subjects is changing, but the proportion of women taking STEM subjects in Japan is small. Only 27.9% of university students in the department of science is women in 2019. In this study, we used an online survey to investigate whether randomly providing thre...

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Autores principales: Ikkatai, Yuko, Inoue, Atsushi, Minamizaki, Azusa, Kano, Kei, McKay, Euan, Yokoyama, Hiromi M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8221466/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34161349
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252710
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author Ikkatai, Yuko
Inoue, Atsushi
Minamizaki, Azusa
Kano, Kei
McKay, Euan
Yokoyama, Hiromi M.
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description The social climate for women studying STEM subjects is changing, but the proportion of women taking STEM subjects in Japan is small. Only 27.9% of university students in the department of science is women in 2019. In this study, we used an online survey to investigate whether randomly providing three types of gender equality information increased the motivation of junior high school students to choose STEM subjects and the motivation of their parents to support that choice. Information on STEM, especially about social equality, and information on math stereotypes and STEM occupations, increased students’ motivations for studying STEM. This suggests that providing gender equality information is an effective way to change students’ attitudes toward STEM.
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spelling pubmed-82214662021-07-07 Effect of providing gender equality information on students’ motivations to choose STEM Ikkatai, Yuko Inoue, Atsushi Minamizaki, Azusa Kano, Kei McKay, Euan Yokoyama, Hiromi M. PLoS One Research Article The social climate for women studying STEM subjects is changing, but the proportion of women taking STEM subjects in Japan is small. Only 27.9% of university students in the department of science is women in 2019. In this study, we used an online survey to investigate whether randomly providing three types of gender equality information increased the motivation of junior high school students to choose STEM subjects and the motivation of their parents to support that choice. Information on STEM, especially about social equality, and information on math stereotypes and STEM occupations, increased students’ motivations for studying STEM. This suggests that providing gender equality information is an effective way to change students’ attitudes toward STEM. Public Library of Science 2021-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8221466/ /pubmed/34161349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252710 Text en © 2021 Ikkatai et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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