Women are STAR
EMPOWERMENT
Women's Rights
Engaging girls early can bridge the gender digital gap at an early age and we want to act on the mitigation of these biases and stereotypes. Using Art, we hope to increase the participation of girls and women in these areas of expertise, by getting them excited about these areas and keeping them aware that they can be and do whatever they want. The sky is not the limit and neither is their gender.
The OECD has studies showing the role of gender stereotypes in these careers where young students are as good as boys in hard sciences but still don't choose this path because of bias and stereotypes.
The Women are STAR project intends to start the integration of digital technologies in women’s and girls’ empowerment strategies. Also, it will create a win-win situation offering teachers and schools activities related to careers and gender equality for free in exchange for the collection of data by teachers of kids' perception while doing the activity.
This data will be an important tool to understand what are the gender data gaps in that environment and develop an educational toolkit fostering girl’s inclusion in the digital world. There is also a possibility to develop a policy brief to use the results of the survey and create recommendations targeting the achievement of SDGs.
Main Goal of the Project
The goal is to foster the mitigation of gender bias and stereotypes about professions and technologies and to stimulate children to know more about women “forgotten” in history and measure gender stereotypes in young students (from 05 – 10 depending on where the schools will be located) regarding STEM and ICT careers, whilst raising awareness to educators and children about the gender digital gap between girls and boys since an early age.
What our partner organisation said when they tried it
_I would like to thank you for the opportunity and partnership and say that we have had very good feedback as Susan talked about the girls' reflection with the activity. As you know, at first I was a bit reticent about how much value the activity could generate, but it was very worthwhile running the activity. I appreciate you bringing this proposal and I am leaving the doors open for future activities together, in whatever we can evolve with these objectives. Zé Seleme - CEO Endeleza
_How can you join the project?
We are seeking your assistance to pilot the project within your classroom or school to enable us to collect data about the effectiveness to ensure the toolkit we publish has a positive impact for girls globally and is well informed via the pilot program.
What you get from us?
The FREE colouring-in pages to use with your students and when the toolkit is published, FREE access to use the toolkit on-goingly with the students within your organisation
What do we ask of you?
All we ask is that each teacher who completes the activities provides a testimony reflective of their overall observation and the students complete a short survey before and after completing the activity.
