July 2022 - ELLAS

STEAM, Gender, and High School: Extension Actions in Partnership with Digital Girls Mato Grosso

With the aim of sharing actions and strategies to promote the STEAM and Gender agenda, this article reports on the formative experience stemming from the Extension Project “Career, Technologies, and Education: extension and research for gender equity,” linked to Digital Girls Mato Grosso. The actions related discussions on the underrepresentation of women in scientific and […]

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Social Media Profiles for Girls and Women Interested in STEM and STEAM Fields

Gender stereotypes and low female representation are some of the aspects that hinder women’s interaction with STEM/STEAM topics. This paper presents a mapping of active profiles on the social media platform Instagram that address and support women’s issues in these areas. Forty-five profiles were identified through a search using descriptors, inclusion and exclusion criteria. It