Why is there so few Women in STEM?
By Ginger Visser
Why so few women you might ask?
For the longest time men were viewed more than women. For this men are biased against women going anything in STEM. And if they were the salaries will be greatly reduced. Also to upscales women have to go through includes environmental and social barriers — including stereotypes, gender bias, and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities — that continue to block women’s progress in STEM.
Some women that broke that Barrier!
Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
Francoise, born in france, was 1 of the first women in her field to really make a difference. For the past 30 years, she has been continuously working on HIV/AIDS research and strongly involved in promoting integration between HIV/AIDS research and actions in resource limited countries. She was awarded the Nobel Prize of medicine for the discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1983. She is on of the first women to get involved in the STEM field.
Ada Yonath
Ada focuses her time around chemistry. She is from Israel, being so she is the first women from Israel to win a noble prize. She won a noble prize along with 3 others on there discovery of ribosomes. She is the first women out of 10 Israelis to win a noble prize.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth, is a United States residence currently working at the university of California. She won a Noble prize along with others on her research with DNA. She received so much attention from this feat, mainly because she is a women in the STEM program/job field. She made many feats like in 2001 President Bush appointed her to the Council on Bioethics, but she was dismissed in 2004 in what is generally believed to be a political move because of her vocal support for human stem cell research.