Women's Application in Underrepresented subjects
Women’s underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is a prominent concern in our society and many others. Closer inspection of this phenomenon reveals a more nuanced picture, however, with women achieving parity with men at the Ph.D. level in certain STEM fields, while also being underrepresented in some non-STEM fields. It is important to consider and provide an account of this field-by-field variability.
We know that mentors early in academia increase positive academic experiences and retention in STEM subjects in further education and in employment. Having mentors who first of all, encourage women to apply for subjects where they are considerably less active that other subjects. At TSUULL, we have a mentor who is responsible for encouragement of women for subjects which is less popular among them. For instance, The subjects such as Computer linguistics and digital technologies, Literary sources and text studies, Theory of literature and modern literary processes were represented to the women who gave application to our university. During admission process, those who were interested were led by Orifjon Olimjanov, who welcomed and guided applicants through the university and gave full description of TSUULL Programs for Technology and Literary Sources.
There is no more effective way to increase the number of females taking STEM subjects than to target them during their school and university years. Persistent images of male mathematicians, engineers and scientists that are shown to children in their formative years create a preconception that these subjects are gatekept by males. Greater representation of female technology innovators, scientists, and mathematicians, for example, need to be addressed to show young female students that they too can pursue STEM subjects during school and university. We need these fields to appear more welcoming.