Health, Information, Perception and Demographic Variables as Correlate of Gender Equality in Science Technology Engineering and Math (Stem) Education in South-West Nigeria
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2017
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With the level of efforts and interventions by
researchers and organizations around the world towards gender
equality in Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM),
the number of women participation is still very low. UNESCO Institute
for Statistics (2015) revealed that female representation is only
about 30% of the total population in STEM while in Africa it is
about 17% ( Ekine, 2013). This statistics, raises the question of
what could be responsible for the resistant disparity? Could it be
that girls at the foundational level do not have adequate career information
about STEM and all it entails? What are their perceptions of
Mathematics and sciences, are there some demographic issues? There
is need to discover what the real causes of gender disparity in mathematics
and sciences are from the junior secondary school, a period
that precedes the choice subjects that form student’s career paths.
This will provide an empirical basis for effectively bridging the gender
gap in STEM in Nigeria thereby building and releasing the necessary
latent human resources to sustain development and compete in the
global economy as well as ensuring inclusivity of girls and women.
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Health information, Perception and Demographic Variables, Gender Equality, Science Technology Engineering and Math (Stem) Education, South-West Nigeria