Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is acknowledged as one of the key drivers of technological innovation. Malaysian women join the educational pipeline as equals to their male counterparts. Nevertheless, women are persistently under-represented in technology and engineering, bu...
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| author | Siew, Ching Goy Yut, Lin Wong Wah, Yun Low Siti Nurani, Mohd Noor Zahra, Fazli Khalaf Nkechi, Onyeneho Esther, Daniel Suzana, Ariff Azizan Maisarah, Hasbullah GinikaUzoigwe, Anthonia |
| author_facet | Siew, Ching Goy Yut, Lin Wong Wah, Yun Low Siti Nurani, Mohd Noor Zahra, Fazli Khalaf Nkechi, Onyeneho Esther, Daniel Suzana, Ariff Azizan Maisarah, Hasbullah GinikaUzoigwe, Anthonia |
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| description | Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is acknowledged as one of the key drivers of technological innovation. Malaysian women join the educational pipeline as equals to their male
counterparts. Nevertheless, women are persistently under-represented in technology and engineering, but over-represented in other STEM fields.
Using data provided by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, our results suggest that under-representation of women in engineering was attributed to low recruitment at the point of entry. Such a finding thus
begs the question as to why women were not recruited into
engineering. Malaysian policymakers and educators need to address
under-representation of women in order to achieve gender equality in
STEM, as part of the goals of Millennium Development and Vision 2020;
to become a nation that is competent, confident and innovative in
harnessing and advancing science and technology. |
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| spelling | unimas-156182021-06-08T10:39:46Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15618/ Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia Siew, Ching Goy Yut, Lin Wong Wah, Yun Low Siti Nurani, Mohd Noor Zahra, Fazli Khalaf Nkechi, Onyeneho Esther, Daniel Suzana, Ariff Azizan Maisarah, Hasbullah GinikaUzoigwe, Anthonia L Education (General) Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is acknowledged as one of the key drivers of technological innovation. Malaysian women join the educational pipeline as equals to their male counterparts. Nevertheless, women are persistently under-represented in technology and engineering, but over-represented in other STEM fields. Using data provided by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education, our results suggest that under-representation of women in engineering was attributed to low recruitment at the point of entry. Such a finding thus begs the question as to why women were not recruited into engineering. Malaysian policymakers and educators need to address under-representation of women in order to achieve gender equality in STEM, as part of the goals of Millennium Development and Vision 2020; to become a nation that is competent, confident and innovative in harnessing and advancing science and technology. Taylor & Francis Group 2017 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/15618/1/Siew.pdf Siew, Ching Goy and Yut, Lin Wong and Wah, Yun Low and Siti Nurani, Mohd Noor and Zahra, Fazli Khalaf and Nkechi, Onyeneho and Esther, Daniel and Suzana, Ariff Azizan and Maisarah, Hasbullah and GinikaUzoigwe, Anthonia (2017) Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia. Studies in Higher Education, 2017. ISSN 0307–5079 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313106583_Swimming_against_the_tide_in_STEM_education_and_gender_equality_a_problem_of_recruitment_or_retention_in_Malaysia http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2016.1277383 |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) Siew, Ching Goy Yut, Lin Wong Wah, Yun Low Siti Nurani, Mohd Noor Zahra, Fazli Khalaf Nkechi, Onyeneho Esther, Daniel Suzana, Ariff Azizan Maisarah, Hasbullah GinikaUzoigwe, Anthonia Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia |
| title | Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia |
| title_full | Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia |
| title_fullStr | Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia |
| title_short | Swimming against the tide in STEM education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in Malaysia |
| title_sort | swimming against the tide in stem education and gender equality: a problem of recruitment or retention in malaysia |
| topic | L Education (General) |
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