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

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 16; no. 6; p. e0252710
• Main Authors: Ikkatai, Yuko, Inoue, Atsushi, Minamizaki, Azusa, Kano, Kei, McKay, Euan, Yokoyama, Hiromi M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 23.06.2021; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Biology; Biology and Life Sciences; Careers; Children & youth; Civil engineering; Computer and Information Sciences; Demographic aspects; Earth science; Educational aspects; Females; Gender; Gender differences; Gender equality; Gender equity; Girls; Humanities; Junior high school students; Mathematics; Middle schools; Motivation; Occupations; People and Places; Physics; Psychological aspects; Sciences education; Secondary school students; Secondary schools; Social Sciences; STEM education; STEM professions; Students; Study and teaching; Surveys; Technical education; University students; Japan; United States > US

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...