The document discusses challenges faced by women in STEM fields. It identifies three major barriers: lack of encouragement, talent deficit, and shortage of role models. Potential solutions are proposed for each barrier, such as investing in infrastructure to promote inclusive access to technology, providing scholarships to increase opportunities for women, and establishing mentoring platforms and internship programs to connect women students with role models. The document emphasizes the need to address negative stereotypes from an early age and promote diversity in academia to support more women in STEM careers.

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Your Shine Can Glow The World
Mehak Azeem
Biomedical Engineer
IEEE Region10 SAC Member
IEEE PES SBC Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam18/07/2020

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Biomedical Engineering Student,
Co-Chair Data Science Boot Camp 1.0,
IEEE Region10 SAC Member,
IEEE Region10 Collabratec Coordinator,
SDGs Regional Advocate,
IEEE YESIST12 Maker Fair 2020 Ambassador,
Microsoft Specialist.

3. What do you understand by today’s
topic of session?
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4. Where we are going? Future is more clear?
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5. Do I expect someone to come & appreciate
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6. How to calm myself? Should I give-up?
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7. Things to realize to suppress stereotypes
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10. Mehak engineering isn’t
the career for you!
No scope in engineer 
It’s too much difficult!!!
Medical suits on girls!
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11. I am doing right? How can I achieve?
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18. S c i e n c e T e c h n o l o g y E n g i n e e r i n g A r t s M a t h e m a t i c s
3 Major Barriers
Lack of
Encouragement
Talent Deficit

19. Solution – Lack of Encouragement
How to remove this barrier?
• Invest in infrastructure in order to make
inclusive access to technology.
• Integrate technology in the classroom.
• Provide hands-on training which
provides real-world experience about
STEM fields.
Example:Summer Camp, Workshop,
Afterschool Activities.

20. Solution – Talent Deficit
How to remove this barrier?
• Provide Scholarshipsthat targeting women
to increase the opportunityfor them.
• Promote STEM Educationby highlightingthe
social impact of science and its role in
solving the world’s pressing problems.
Example: Speaker Series.
• Provide venues to network, learn, and
share peer’s experiences.
Example: Conference and Professional Society
Meetings.
How to remove this barrier?

21. Solution – Role Model Shortage
How to remove this barrier?
• Build virtual mentoring platforms to
connect women students with inspiring
women.
• Provide internship and allow them to
connect with women at all levels within
your organizationsand offer plenty of
opportunity for dialogue.
• Provide fellowship to
cultivateleadershipand professional
coaching for women professionals.
How to remove this barrier?

22. STEM PIPELINE - LEAKING BADLY
The STEM pipeline is a key
component of workplace
diversity and of workforce
development that ensures
sufficient qualified candidates are
available to fill scientific and
technical positions.
The STEM pipeline concept is a useful tool f
or programs aiming at increasing the total
number of graduates, increase the number
of underrepresented minorities and
women in STEM fields.

23. How To Troubleshoot
Role model at Primary stage
Young undergraduates learn that science privileges a
masculine culture, which makes it hard
to imagine their career path.
Make STEM adoptable to Young Undergraduate
Practical ways to tackle this problem include diversity training
for hiring committees.
Diversity Trainings
Mentorship Programme
Another avenue for change is to address stereotypes and
their effects.
Address Stereotypes and effects
Children lack female scientist role models from primary school
Better mentorship programme for female graduate students
and postdocs.

24. "Women have a place at the table when it
comes to science. Don't let anyone tell you
otherwise."
Dr. Marye Anne Fox.
"I love technology, and I don't think it's something
that should divide along gender lines.“
Marissa Mayer
WE CAN DO IT!
“We are not here to say pink
and princesses are band, we
just want girls to know they
can build their own castles,
too!"
Debbie Sterling

25. “YOU CAN DO THE SAME”

26. POOJA CHANDRASHEKAR
Young computer scientist &
advocate
DR. JEDIDAH ISLER
First African American woman to earn a
PhD in Astrophysics from Yale
MAE JEMISON
First African American
woman to travel to space.
Maryam Mirzakhani
Noble Prize for Math
Bindi Karia
‘Queen of Startups’ – Silicon
Valley
Aprille Ericsson-Jackson
first African-American woman to receive a
Ph.D. in Engineering at NASA’s Goddard
Space Flight Center

27. Negative stereotypes by Family
Implicitly believe that girls are indeed poor at
STEM subjects. As girls grow up, these
stereotypes affect their identities as STEM
professionals.
Bias abound in academia
The arguments that girls find science “boring,”
that attempts to bridge the gender divide “deny
human biology and nature,” and that efforts to
achieve gender equality (STEM) fields
are doomed.
Nature vs Nurture
No cognitive differences in men and
women’s performance in tests
until stereotype threat is triggered.
Hormones make us “different”.
Women drop out of science because their
hormones make them “different”
Must be Thinking? Why?

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29. Thank You
Email: [mehakazeem@ieee.org]

30. Biomedical Engineer
SDG Advocate, Pakistan
IEEE R10 SAC Member |
Social Media Coordinator
IEEE Brand Ambassador
MAKE YOUR VISION SO
CLEAR, THAT YOUR FEARS
BECOME IRRELEVANT
MEHAKAZEEM
MEHAK AZEEM
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