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Pal.STEM4girls
Instilling love for STEM in children: Towards Empowering and Building a STEM identity!
(An educational Initiative to encourage STEM in children from a younger age and advocate for reducing gender disparity in STEM)
Pal.STEM4girls is a Kitchener-Waterloo region based community-driven educational initiative!
I partner with schools, community organizations, parents, and mentors to develop and offer personalized, curriculum -aligned, hands-on, innovative STEM learning experiences to grade 1-6 students and reach more girls to encourage them to explore STEM connections in everyday life and early on.
My programs are designed to inspire students to develop love for STEM from an early age, enhance student confidence and participation in STEM classrooms while helping reduce gender disparity in STEM fields.
Our advocacy works include:
in-School STEM experiences for grade 1-6 students
Weekend STEM experiences for grade 1-6 girls
Women in STEM as role model Series
Resources, Research and Awareness- Media
and
Here are the links to see details of our works.
Our Fall 2026 in-school programs and weekend programs for girls are open for registration and our two women mentors as role models are joining us in November and December.
Factors that affect female representation in STEM Education?
Factors that affect female representation in STEM Education?
Here are some of the factors that affect female participation, progress, and achievement in STEM Education
Individual skills and abilities
Parental beliefs and expectations, socio-economic status, and peers
school environment, teacher's beliefs and expectations,
socio-cultural norms with regards to gender in-equality and stereotypes in media
(retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000253479)
Why do we need to encourage females in STEM?
Why do we need to encourage females in STEM?
As per the recent HESA data, women and non-binary students represent only 31% of all core higher education STEM students in the UK.
This ratio further reduces in workforce in Math, Engineering (12%), and Computer Science (IT-19%).
(retrieved from https://www.stemwomen.com/women-in-stem-statistics-progress-and-challenges)
Similarly, as per the latest NSF reports, the percentage of women completing undergraduate studies in STEM is quite low (39% Physical Sciences, 32% Economics, 22% engineering, and 21.3% Computers and Information Sciences.
Similar to the UK workforce, the female presence in STEM workforce in North America is also low (23-24%) which further drops further when we calculate the percentage of females occupying leadership positions in STEM industries.
(retrieved from https://www.womentech.net/women-in-tech-stats)
What can we do to encourage females in STEM?
What can we do to encourage females in STEM?
Some of the ways we can intervene are:
Help girls build self-efficacy, interests, and motivation to pursue STEM studies and careers.
Engage parents and families to address gender-based misconceptions about girls' abilities, possibilities, education and careers in STEM.
Encourage schools and teachers to address their own beliefs about gender stereotypes and abilities to design gender responsive curricula and unbiased assessments.
Challange societal and cultural norms around gender equality, gender stereotypes in media, and policies.
(retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000253479)
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