Professional Documents
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3/29/19
PD:2 Independent Research
Rubiano-Matulevich, E. (2019, February 11). Improving the pathway from school to STEM
careers for girls and women. Retrieved from
https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/improving-pathway-school-stem-careers-girls-and-women
This informative article was written by Eliana Matulevich-Rubiano and was co-authored
by multiple other authors who all relate to the topic of improving the pathway from school to
STEM careers. The article mentions that the improvement of development of the quantity and
quality of education is crucial to empowering young girls to fulfill their potential in STEM. In
some of data charts and graphs collect from countries around the world, the article says that in
primary school and in secondary school there is no gender differences in science achievement
meaning that girls perform as well as boys in science and mathematics. But, once girls hit
post-secondary school this is where the gender gap emerges in STEM education because women
were less likely to major in specific STEM fields. Only 12% of women would chose to study in a
STEM field compared to men with 28%. The girls performance in STEM did not explain why
there is a gender gap in post-secondary school when they do so well in primary and secondary
school. The article also said that ways to improve STEM participation to boost young girls
confidence with real world experience during their studies and by providing more significant role
models. However the article mentions once again, that all of this should start in the schools first
STEM because her credentials include a Master’s in Public Administration from the Columbia
University, and M.Sc. in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia). She
currently works as an Economist with the Gender Group, where she works to improve the
availability of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics. Her contact information is included
in the article.Written on February 11, 2019, this source is current on the topic of improving
schools for easier pathway for women and girls who might want to go into STEM.
The coverage can be considered broad and deep because it includes charts and graph with data
that correspond to information shown in the article. The information contained in the source can
be verified elsewhere. For example, the author says that women are less likely than men to enter
and more likely to leave the STEM workforce, which can be corroborated by in his/her
publication which is called the “Gender Data Portal” which shows the gender gaps between
women and men in STEM around the world. The purpose of this article is to educate schools on
how the pathway for young girls to get into STEM starts there first. The audience is towards
young girls, women, and educators who want to to improve the pathway.