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You need to hear the bad news first the results of STEM outreach to girls havent improved in twenty years The good news This book will tell you why and how to fix it Currently dated narratives push girls away in fear and blind spots result in missed opportunities to pull them in While efforts to increase diversity in science and mathematics have succeeded outreach has largely ignored engineeringwhere there is still only one woman for every five men This is especially troubling because engineering offers vastly more jobs than other STEM fields Plus girls are telling us theyre eager for the kind of work engineering offersyet we fail to help them connect the dots
As a woman enjoying a career in STEM author Julie Newman is committed to changing this With extensive research and actionable steps Pull Dont Push clarifies the challenges facing STEM outreach and will help you create a new framework for your efforts Following the guidelines in this book could literally put a million women into STEM jobs within the next decade Learn how to stop pushing girls away and instead pull them toward unexplored paths to fulfillment