Seminar discussion on gender bias

Preparation work for live session

Today's class will be a seminar discussion in the style of the formative assessment next week. The topic of discussion will be similar to the essay you wrote earlier in the week, and you will also utilise the same texts as for the essay. The same text pack can be accessed below. For the discussion you can also draw on the documentary we watched: The Secret Life of Five-Year-Olds, which investigated the role of genes and culture in gender. In groups of three or four, your discussion question is:

What are the main causes of unequal representation between men and women in STEM fields? To what extent is it a problem, and what policies could help?