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Black STEM Students and the Opportunity Structure

What pre-college characteristics, college experiences, and college environments significantly influence Black students’ participation within the STEM opportunity structure, compared to their White counterparts?

Preferences, Constraints, and the Process of Sex Segregation in College Majors: A Choice Analysis

  1. To test whether certain fields are perceived as less hospitable to women and avoided by them for that reason.
  2. To test whether women and men anticipate the demands imposed by gender-specific parenthood roles and eschew majors that are incompatible with these either because majors do not provide the desired work-family balance, or not the earnings level necessary to fulfill the breadwinner role.
  3. To test whether women’s and men’s choices are constrained by friends’ and parents’ potential disapproval for sex-atypical choices.

Perceived Gender and Racial/Ethnic Barriers to STEM Success

Assess the variation in perceived STEM support by gender and race/ethnicity and its associations with STEM aspirations. Explore in-depth the participants’ perceptions of microaggressions and support for girls and underrepresented minorities in STEM.

Effects of learning about gender discrimination on adolescent girls' attitudes toward and interest in science

To examine whether adolescent girls’ interest in, and attitudes toward, science are affected by knowledge about gender discrimination in the field.

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