{"id":1255,"date":"2018-10-09T13:34:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T12:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/?p=1255"},"modified":"2023-06-21T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T08:26:53","slug":"ada-lovelace-day-resetting-the-balance-for-women-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/2018\/10\/09\/ada-lovelace-day-resetting-the-balance-for-women-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Lovelace Day: Resetting the balance for women in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women of STEM and their achievements often go under the radar. After all, while Alan Turing was breaking the German Enigma, star of the silver screen Hedy Lamarr was taking a holiday from Hollywood and inventing a radio guidance system upon which modern-day Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are based.<\/p>\n<p>And while in 2004 Prof Andre Geim and Prof Kostya Novoselov may have won the Nobel Prize for isolating the notoriously strong graphene, Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar &#8211; a flame and corrosion-resistant material that\u2019s stronger than steel \u2013 40 years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/2017\/10\/24\/ada-lovelace-original-woman-stemm\/\">Ada Lovelace Day<\/a> helps to reset the balance. Named after the woman who played an instrumental role in the development of modern-day computer programming (Alan Turing was working from her notes nearly 100 years after she died), today is the day to shout about the achievements of women in science and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s vital that the accomplishments of women in STEM are acknowledged, not only to give them the recognition they deserve, but also to inspire the next generation of female engineers, scientists and mathematicians. Because, as we\u2019ve noted before, between the ages of 10 and 11 the representation and engagement of girls in these classes \u201cdrops off a cliff\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>Here come the girls<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-1-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Scientist looking in microscope\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-1.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Research conducted by the Institute of Physics previously revealed that girls make up just one in five of the Physics A-level students in classrooms around the country. It is little surprise, then, that this same figure is seen in the female to male ratio of Physics degree students in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The dropout of girls from science classes and, later, women from STEM industries is known as the \u2018leaky pipeline\u2019. Work is being done to address this, such as the WISE campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/2018\/05\/02\/inspiring-the-future-women-of-stem\/\">Bring Your Daughter to Work Week<\/a>, in which our Faculty participates.<\/p>\n<p>From an early age girls often struggle with confidence and are particularly worried about failing, which can mean they avoid asking questions or volunteering answers in the classroom. And of course, science and engineering is all about asking questions, getting things wrong and looking for solutions. The aim of the Bring Your Daughter to Work event is to provide girls with an environment where they\u2019re encouraged to be curious, ask questions and \u2013 perhaps most importantly \u2013 to fail.<\/p>\n<h2>Failing is winning<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-2-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"Engineer with wave machine\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-2-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/ALD-small-2.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This thinking is echoed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raeng.org.uk\/publications\/reports\/tinkering-for-learning\">joint report<\/a> released this week\u00a0by The University of Manchester\u00a0and the Royal Academy of Engineers, which suggests that primary school teachers should encourage their pupils to \u201cembrace failure\u201d. By doing so, schoolchildren can draw on a range of skills to come up with a practical way to solve the problem \u2013 which is key in engineering.<\/p>\n<p>By changing the approach to how engineering is taught in the classroom, the current shortfall of engineers could be reduced. It is estimated that the engineering sector is currently short of as many as 20,000 engineering graduates a year.<\/p>\n<p>While work is being done to encourage more girls to stick with STEM in education, what of women in STEM careers? A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk\/posts\/2018\/07\/why-engineering-in-the-uk-must-embrace-change\/\">blog post for Policy at The University of Manchester<\/a> by Dr Diane Harris and Dr Maria Pampaka &#8211; lead project investigators for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchingfuturesinengineering.com\/\">Futures in Engineering<\/a>\u00a0initiative \u2013 highlighted the need for cultural change not only in the teaching of STEM subjects, but also in how society perceives engineers. One particular issue highlighted by the authors is how gender stereotyping may partly be to blame for so few women pursuing careers in STEM \u2013 and particularly engineering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUndeniably, women are equally as capable as men at performing well in mathematics, but they can be adversely affected by the negative gender stereotype i.e. preconceived ideas which arbitrarily assign characteristics and roles to women (and men) that are determined and restricted by their gender,\u201d the authors note. They include examples such as men having \u201cbetter\u201d spatial awareness and being &#8220;better at map reading&#8221;. This may help explain why fewer than one in 10 of the professional engineers working in the UK right now are women.<\/p>\n<p>This Ada Lovelace Day, we are proud to recognise the achievements of all our female scientists and engineers, both past and present. Women like:<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/Beatrice-Shilling-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Beatrice Shilling\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Beatrice Shilling<\/h2>\n<p>A motorcycle racer AND a war hero \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/2017\/06\/23\/on-your-bike-uom-hero-of-engineering-beatrice-shilling-celebrated-in-new-documentary\/\">Beatrice Shilling<\/a> is a name we really think more people should know. One of the first women to enrol on an electrical engineering course at Manchester\u2019s Victoria University, she went on to invent a device that stopped the Spitfires flown by the Allied forces from stalling when they went into nosedive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1257\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/Carole-Goble-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Carole Goble\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Carole Goble<\/h2>\n<p>Our own Professor Carole Goble was the first person to be awarded the Microsoft Jim Gray Award for outstanding contribution to e-science. She also established myGrid, which spans both theory and practice and focuses on data intensive e-science.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1258\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/Dan-George-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Danielle George\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Danielle George<\/h2>\n<p>Professor Danielle George is certainly busy. When she\u2019s not igniting passion and excitement for engineering and science on the TV, the Professor in Microwave Communication Engineering\u00a0can be found doing exactly the same right here. She\u2019s also our Faculty\u2019s Associate Dean for Teaching\u00a0and Learning AND was recently announced as the Deputy President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology too.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/science-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/10\/Alice-Larkin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Alice Larkin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Alice Larkin<\/h2>\n<p>Astrophysicist and climate change expert Alice Larkin is another one of our Professors who\u2019s certainly keeping busy right now. Prof Larkin\u2019s research is focused on helping different areas of the economy reduce CO2 emissions and tackle climate change. She has recently been announced as the Vice Dean and Head of the Faculty\u2019s new School of Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Words &#8211; Hayley Cox<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Images &#8211; The University of Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women of STEM and their achievements often go under the radar. After all, while Alan Turing was breaking the German Enigma, star of the silver screen Hedy Lamarr was taking a holiday from Hollywood and inventing a radio guidance system upon which modern-day Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are based. 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