“What we show here is that the deficit is not with those students, but rather with the classroom.'
Expanding class size in science, technology, engineering and mathematics classrooms has the greatest negative effect on female class participation, according to a new study published in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience. Large classes start negatively impacting students once they consist of more than roughly 120 students, the authors found.
Women make up only 26% of people in computer and mathematical occupations, 21% of computer programmers and 16% of those in architecture and engineering, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Meanwhile, STEM careers are some of the most lucrative. Research has also identified gender bias among teachers, negative stereotypes that inhibit girls’ STEM test scores and aspirations, workplace discrimination and sexual harassment. This participation gender gap in large STEM classes, the authors wrote, effectively means that women “systematically miss out on opportunities to rehearse articulating their answers aloud to a science community in an environment where wrong answers rarely have negative impacts on consequential outcomes, such as grades.
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