STEM Equity Pipeline National & Iowa Data

1. STEM Equity Pipeline National & Iowa Data Courtney Reed Jenkins State Facilitator

2. In the next thirty minutes… • STEM and gender equity: national data • STEM and gender equity: Iowa data

3. STEM and gender equity: National Data • The AAUW Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls (AAUW, 1992) • Where the Girls Are: The Facts about Gender Equity in Education (AAUW, 2008)

4. Where the Girls Are: The Facts about Gender Equity in Education • The report concludes: • Girls’ successes do not come at boys’ expense • On average, girls’ and boys’ educational performance has improved. • Understanding race/ethnicity and family income level is critical to understanding girls’ and boys’ achievement.

5. Where the Girls Are: The Facts about Gender Equity in Education (data) • National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) : • A Slight Gender Gap Favors Boys in Math: • Figure 2 • Large Gaps in Test Scores Exist by Race/Ethnicity: • Figure 4 • Test Scores Are Closely Connected to Family Income Level: • Figure 3

6. Where the Girls Are: The Facts about Gender Equity in Education (data) • SAT mathematics exam: • The gender gap in the math exam favors boys: • Figure 15 • Across race/ethnicities, boys tend to outscore girls in math • Figure 16 • Gender gaps vary by family income level: • Figure 19

7. STEM and gender equity: National data • Tools of the Trade: Using the Law to Address Sex Segregation in High School Career and Technical Education (National Women’s Law Center, 2005)

8. Tools of the Trade: Using the Law to Address Sex Segregation in High School Career and Technical Education • The report concludes: • Girls represent more than 5/6 of students enrolled in courses leading to traditionally female occupations • Girls are fewer than 1 out of every 5 students in courses leading to nontraditional occupations

9. Tools of the Trade: Using the Law to Address Sex Segregation in High School Career and Technical Education (data) High school career and technical education is sex-segregated: Figures 2 & 3

10. Tools of the Trade: Using the Law to Address Sex Segregation in High School Career and Technical Education Sex-segregated education leads to pay disparities: Figures 4 & 5

11. Iowa high school career and technical education data • The Annual Career and Technical Education Report (Iowa Department of Education, 2007) • Male and female participation has remained fairly constant: • Student demographics • Some occupations have disproportionately male enrollment.

12. Iowa Community College Data • Iowa Community Colleges Performance Indicators (Iowa Department of Education, 2008) • Shaping the Future: A Five-Year Plan for Iowa’s System of Community Colleges(Iowa Department of Education, 2005)

13. Shaping the Future: A Five-Year Plan for Iowa’s System of Community Colleges • 2005 Progress Report to the State Board of Education • Business & marketing: decrease of females in Information Technology; specialty marketing is sex-segregated • Industrial technology is sex-segregated

14. STEM and gender equity: Observations (3 minutes) • Turn to your neighbor and reflect on the national and Iowa data… • What strikes you? • What other data do you have that, in tandem with any/some of this data, tells a more complete story?

15. STEM and gender equity: Questions (3 minutes) • Turn to your neighbor and reflect on the national and state data… • What are the most pressing questions you have?

16. Questions? Courtney Reed Jenkins State Facilitator STEM Equity Pipeline Project 1138 US Highway 12/18 Deerfield, WI 53531 608/886-0728 phone creedjenkins@napequity.org