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Girls in Physics
Survey from 2013 suggested that girls feel valued more for their looks than for their intellect |
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| Outreach projects 'have failed' to engage girls in physics | Link | |
Inspiring The Future - Redraw The Balance |
Link | YouTube. 3 minutes |
| Inspire Her Mind - Verizon Commercial | Link | Innocent comments can have a big impact on the message we give to girls about what they can and can't do. YouTube. 1 minute |
| "A guide to good practice in countering gender stereotyping in schools" | Link | published by the IOP |
| Efforts to encourage girls into STEM over-emphasise the barriers, doing more harm than good. | Link | Professor Gail Cardew reflects on the discussions from the fourth RI unconference for young people. |
| Girls 'more likely' to suffer from maths anxiety | Link | Researchers are struggling to understand why girls are more "afraid" of maths than boys. From rte.ie |
| Nice initiative taken by Cork Chamber to inspire young secondary school female students to pursue careers in STEM. | Link | YouTube. 3 minutes |
| What Really Keeps Women Out of STEM | Link | From the nytimes.com |
| Pioneering Women of Physics | Link | Perimeter Institute for Theoritical Physics celebrates women who made pioneering contributions to physics, often overcoming tremendous challenges to do so. |
| Rocket-women: redrawing the balance | Link | rocket-women.com/ |
| Rocket Women shows girls the sky’s no limit | Link | The sky is no limit for space consultant Vinita Marwaha, who is keen for young women interested in STEM to have role models. From siliconrepublic |
| Myself and all the other girls in my Physics degree course throwing our hats in the air for our graduation | Telling image from a recent graduate | |
| Comments on the photo above | From reddit.com | |
| Report on ‘Attracting young women into science and technology’ in Ireland | With input from the ista.ie | |
| iop.org/girlsinphysics | The IOP's fight to highlight this issue | |
| Celebrating women who made pioneering contributions to physics, often overcoming tremendous challenges to do so. | Link | Nice summaries from perimeterinstitute.ca |
| Not for people like me? | From wisecampaign.org.uk | |
| Women Invent Tomorrow | Silicon Republic's year-long campaign to champion the role of women in science, technology, engineering and maths | |
| Meeting the gender equality challenge | From politics.co.uk | |
| Welcome to girl-friendly Physics teaching | Link | girlfriendlyphysics.co.uk/ |
| How to increase the uptake of girls in Physics | Website: girlfriendlyphysics.co.uk | |
| Pioneering Women of Physics | Link | From perimeterinstitute.ca |
| How to engage girls in Physics | A physics teacher demonstrates how he keeps his female students motivated and engaged by following the five golden rules for Girls in Physics | |
| Girls speak out | Three young women go back to school to find out what turns girls away from physics. From schoolsworld.tv | |
Women In Physics Share Their Stories |
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| What works for girls in the physics classroom? | Blogpost from Athene Donald in Physicsfocus | |
| One school is bucking the trend | A report from the Guardian newspaper |
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| What's putting girls off A-level Physics? | Also from the Guardian | |
| How Elementary School Teachers’ Biases Can Discourage Girls From Math and Science | From newyorktimes.com | |
| Why don't more girls study Physics? | From the Telegraph. With lots of comments | |
| Want to address the gender imbalance in your science classroom? | Tell more stories - couldn't agree more. Blog from Scientific American journal |
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| Physics is a feminist issue | From iopblog.org | |
| Closing Doors: Exploring gender and subject choice in schools | An Institute of Physics report in pdf form | |
| Are girls bad at science? | You can guess the answer. YouTube. 5 minutes | |
The European Commission has a campaign "Science: it's a girl thing!" |
From scientix.eu | |
| Why It's Crucial to Get More Women Into Science | From National Geographic | |
| 5 facts you should know about women who shaped modern physics | Text-based. From TED.com | |
| The Center for Women in Science at Wilfrid Laurier University: | YouTube. 2 minutes | |
| Gender bias found in student ratings of high school science teachers | Text-based report from an American university | |