INCREASING FEMALE PARTICIPATION IN STEM
BABATUNDE Victoria Olufunke and OLANREWAJU Beatrice Yetunde1 School of Sciences, Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Nigeria
Email: Babatundeolufunke2@gmail.com
2 School of Sciences, Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, Nigeria
Email: yetundeolan@gmail.com
Abstract
The significance of women's involvement in STEM cannot be underestimated. The center of gravity for technological development and advancement is STEM education. The rise in female population may contribute to new scientific and technological research of theories and techniques that will result in a sustainable development. Women's effective participation in STEM has been hampered by several problems, such as low school enrollment, gender discrimination, cultural and religious prejudice. Scholarships were suggested to get girls interested in science from an early age, and it was suggested that textbook authors utilize both men and women to illustrate masculine occupations and that laws be passed to remove discrimination against women in some professions.
Keywords: science, technology, engineering, mathematics, female participation
