WWEST Women in Science and Engineering Deck
2017 – (See Cards | Deck Info | Download Game | Download Rules Only | Purchase)…
This is in collaboration with WWEST, and focuses on awesome women in STEM, as well as issues pertaining to the challenges around gender equity. For more information on the grant acquired to create the deck, please see this link. This deck uses the hand building game mechanic (as seen in the GSA deck). Please feel free to download the cards and rules, as well as let us know if you have any great ideas for expansion decks.
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Women in STEM, particularly women of colour, often have to provide more evidence of being competent to be treated as equally capable as men.
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Women in STEM report pressure to fill traditionally feminine roles. Asian-Americans report the most backlash for assertive, self-promoting behaviours.
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Almost half of black and latina women in STEM fields have been mistaken for a janitor or admin staff in their own offices.
Marie Tharp
1920-2006, USA
– Created the 1st map of the entire ocean floor.
– Her work was an important part of the highly controversial theory of continental drift.
– Was once fired for “girl talk” and defending her science.