Thursday, April 23, 2015
Death by a thousand cuts
Women might be enrolling in STEM disciplines (or some of them), but they are not staying. Maclean's magazine suggests that women are forced out of STEM because they are discouraged by many small, sexist moments, according to Maclean’s, i.e., “death by a thousand cuts.” Only 12% of Canada’s 280,000 engineers are women, and in academia,... More