All-girls STEM camps were launched to get more girls interested in the high-paying STEM fields. Now that these camps are coming under fire for being biased against boys:
reports, the U.S. Department of Education has opened more than two dozen investigations into universities across the nation that offer a variety of female-only programs and scholarships including these camps for middle and high school girls.that five years ago, they started the camp to lure more girls into engineering, because only 29% of students enrolled in Berkeley's engineering college are women.
says she’s not a big fan of single-gender STEM programs, “I do see them as discriminatory, and I have yet to see good evidence that they increase the number of women who persevere in STEM. Instead, I wonder if it sends a message not unlike segregated sports teams, that girls aren't actually as capable as boys, so need their own STEM league—which sadly never makes it to the Majors.
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