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Aspiring females in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields need to be shown potential careers are achievable and given visible role models. However, currently in NSW, all students undertaking a year 11 or year 12 Science course as part of their HSC are only shown a sexist representation of scientists. After this discovery in 2018, the #IncludeHer movement was started to see this biased representation in NSW fixed. Since then, it has grown to a national campaign and sparked conversations with the NSW Education Standards Authority, Sarah Mitchell, the Minister for Early Education and Childhood Learning and over 1,800 signatures in a worldwide petition. In this talk, I will outline my journey running this campaign and the outcomes it is working towards. This talk is to start the conversation about how we represent scientists to young students and discuss plausible solutions we can begin implementing immediately. |
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