Thursday Series Introduction: Tearing-Down-Barriers Thursday

Hello,

As this blog's focus is on females in S.T.E.M., I thought it was time to have a series dedicated solely to the gender gap in S.T.E.M., and more specifically; how leaders are combatting the problem.

According to the National Girls Collaborative Project, women only make up 18.2% on the workforce for computer science, and that is only an example of these discouraging statistics.

Fortunately, many organizations are working to combat this; for example, take Harvard University.
The Implicit Test measures your inner preferences for a variety of topics, two of which are

Gender and Career and Gender and Science. I strongly encourage readers to take the Implicit Test if you desire; I found it very insightful.

A quick sneak peak:
Studies show women's coding changes are accepted more frequently if the name is hidden, and what companies are doing about this.

See you next week for Tearing-Down-Barriers Thursday!