Dr Jess Wade has written, and worked on this, quite extensively and provides clarity for many of the arguments that put us into this position, and clarifies our complicity: "I don't understand how scientists and engineers have been okay with it for so long." 🧪 elifesciences.org/interviews/f...
This was the content of a talk I did the other day to which a single white man came despite targeted & heavy advertising. The people who are most powerful in perpetuating this are intent on ignoring the evidence as they benefit from status quo. Can’t even get them in a room to hear about it.
With all the hoopla around the Nobel, I couldn’t help but think that the history of awardees is itself a blunt, depressing commentary on the systemic problems in STEM. We science good, we people bad
Dr. Bressoud at Macalaster speaks about stereotype threat in the calculus classroom.