{"id":15675,"date":"2012-12-15T01:04:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T09:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=15675"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:48:59","slug":"csws-noon-talk-when-hard-work-doesnt-pay-off-exploring-self-perceptions-to-understand-the-underrepresentation-of-women-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-noon-talk-when-hard-work-doesnt-pay-off-exploring-self-perceptions-to-understand-the-underrepresentation-of-women-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"CSWS Noon Talk: Karyn Lewis on Women in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lewis-noon-talk-flyer2\"<\/a>330 Hendricks
\nJane Grant Rm
\n1408 University
\nUO campus<\/p>\n

Read the Around the O<\/em> story<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Hard Work Doesn\u2019t Pay Off: Exploring Self-Perceptions to Understand the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM\u201d<\/h6>\n

Karyn Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate in the UO Department of Psychology. She received a 2010 CSWS graduate student research grant for her work on this research.<\/p>\n

From the 2012 CSWS Annual Review<\/em><\/h6>\n

<\/em>\u201cDespite moving beyond old prejudices that closed the doors to women interested in pursuing science and technology, recent statistics from the National Science Foundation show that men still outnumber women in the \u201cSTEM\u201d (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, sometimes by ratios of 3.5 to 1. Unfortunately, there are no simple answers as to how to understand the causes of this disparity and successfully intervene. As social psychologists, we can use our training to understand how the social context of these traditionally male-dominated fields might affect the participation and persistence of women. Past work by other social psychologists has primarily examined contextual factors that affect women\u2019s objectively measured performance. For instance, the seminal research by Claude Steele and his colleagues on stereotype threat has shown that even seemingly small things, like marking one\u2019s gender on a standardized test prior to taking the test or being the only female present in a classroom are enough to cause a cascade of internal events, such as worrying about confirming negative stereotypes, that in turn can eat up precious cognitive capacity and in the end undermine women\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis past work greatly enhanced our understanding about influences on women\u2019s performance in STEM. However, we know that it isn\u2019t performance alone that predicts persistence in STEM fields. In fact, the subjective perception of how one is doing in a field (which doesn\u2019t necessarily correlate with actual performance), over and above objective performance, can also predict motivation and persistence in that field. My work, done in collaboration with my graduate advisor, Dr. Sara Hodges, has been focused on understanding what situational factors affect women\u2019s self-perceptions and how these self-perceptions in turn affect decisions to persist in STEM.\u201d\u2014Karyn Lewis<\/p>\n

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330 Hendricks Jane Grant Rm 1408 University UO campus Read the Around the O story \u201cWhen Hard Work Doesn\u2019t Pay Off: Exploring Self-Perceptions to Understand the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM\u201d Karyn Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate in the UO…<\/p>\n

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