User:Lctham01

Hi! I am editing the page Women in STEM fields.

One resource I plan to use is A Complex Formula: Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Asia published by UNESCO Bangkok.

10/27/16 Annotated Bibliography
I plan on writing my paper about how, due to eurocentrism, American nationalism, cultural chauvinism, etc., we (Americans) may tend to assume that the situation for women in STEM is better in America and other similarly developed Western countries than in other regions, though, according to my research, this is not the case. I have not yet found many sources regarding eurocentrism that I would like to use, but I’ll keep looking. I do, however, plan on using the sources below to support my argument:

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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Bangkok Office and Korean Women’s Development Institute. “A Complex Formula: Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in Asia.” Paris, France: UNESCO, 2015. Web. 

“A Complex Formula” provided most of the information which I used to make my Wikipedia edit. It contained lots of data about women in STEM in several Asian countries as well as cultural background and societal norms that may contribute to the STEM gender gaps for each of the countries studied.

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Castillo, Rafael, Matteo Grazzi and Ezequiel Tacsir. “Women in Science and Technology: What Does the Literature Say?” Inter-American Development Bank, 2014. IDB-TN-637. Web. 

This source discusses reasons why there are fewer women than men in STEM in Latin American countries as well as possible ways to shrink the gender gap. I would like for some of this information to be added to the Wikipedia page, plus I want to use it in my paper to provide a global view of the situation of women in STEM.

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“IGU/UNESCO Roundtable on Women in Engineering Concept paper.” IGU/UNESCO Workshop on Women in Engineering Paris 2013. UNESCO. 10 December 2013. Web. 

This provides some statistics about women in STEM in various countries, which I can use in my paper and which can be used in future Wikipedia edits to add to the international section of the article.

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Stoet, Gijsbert, Drew H. Bailey, Alex M. Moore and David C. Geary. “Countries with Higher Levels of Gender Equality Show Larger National Sex Differences in Mathematics Anxiety and Relatively Lower Parental Mathematics Valuation for Girls.” PLoS ONE vol. 11, no. 4, 2016, pp. 1-24. EBSCO Academic Search Complete. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153857.

I want to use this to support the idea that countries that are perceived to be more developed or progressive in terms of gender in the workforce are not necessarily “better” for women in STEM. In fact, this research shows that girls have more anxiety associated with math in more egalitarian countries than in less egalitarian countries.

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U.S. Department of State Office of the Spokesperson. “Fact Sheet: Advancing the Status of Women and Girls Around the World.” Washington, DC: U.S. Department of State, 8 March 2013. Web. 

I used this in one of my earlier Wikipedia edits to show how governments are taking initiatives to encourage women and girls to enter STEM fields. I could also use it in my paper to show some potential Americentrism at play, as the American government feels the need to work on improving the situation of women in STEM in other countries where the gender gap in STEM may be assumed to be large (i.e. the Middle East), though according to data, Middle Eastern countries have pretty solid gender ratios in the sciences and, based on these numbers, may be better off than America in terms of women in STEM.

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Association of Academies and Societies of Sciences in Asia (AASSA). “Women in Science and Technology in Asia.” Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea: AASSA, 2015. 

This provides data about women in STEM fields in Asian countries, including Australia and some Middle Eastern and South Asian countries that were not included in “A Complex Formula.” I would like for this information to be used to supplement my Wikipedia edit in the future. Also, I can use it in my paper to bulk up my claims that other countries perceived to be less progressive than the US are actually doing better than American in terms of STEM gender gaps.

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European Commission. “She Figures 2012: Gender in Research and Innovation.” Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2013. Web. 

This provides information about women in STEM in many European countries. Though we assume that Western countries like these would have high rates of women in STEM, this report shows otherwise.

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Australia, Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Office of the Chief Scientist. Australia’s STEM Workforce. Commonwealth of Australia, 2016.

I did not come across much information about women in STEM in Australia except for this, as most of the information on the topic of women in STEM is about the US, Europe, or Asia. This will then be useful to other editors working on Wikipedia’s “Women in STEM fields” page as well as to me in discussing the gender gaps in STEM around the world. Research about Australian women in STEM will also be interesting to look at through the lens of eurocentrism as it sometimes gets lumped together with European countries and is considered to be fairly Western.