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STEM Camp targets girls

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There is a disparity between the number of females who study computer and technological sciences and the number of males, says dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus, Dr Colin Depradine. 

“On the technological side, there is a dearth of female students and staff, and this is a reflection really of how society has all those stereotypes and pushes our youth in the direction that they may _not wish to go,” _he said yesterday.

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He was speaking at the media launch of the inaugural International Business Machines (IBM) Science Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) 4 Girls camp _at Hilton Barbados.

Depradine said the faculty had two major departments: Biology and Chemical Sciences and Computer Science, Maths, Physics and Electronics.

Although the number of students was split down the middle in terms of males and females, 80 per cent of females were in biological sciences while 80 per cent of the males were in the technological sciences.

Depradine said there were 25 teachers in each department, with the biological sciences having half male to female but on the technological side there were only two females – one temporary – to 23 male staff members. (LK)

Read the full story in today’s WEEKEND NATION newspaper or read the e-paper online.

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