This activity aims to improve critical thinking and gives more information of how different levels of our lives (social, family, school, individual ) could or are influencing gender equality in STEAM and offers a way to measure it so we could improve it.

TYPE OF THE ACTIVITY:

Online book, activity

DURATION:

45min.

TEACHING AID:

Computers / Phones, internet connection

TEACHING PRACTICE (STEP BY STEP):

1. Read the first article about Measuring Gender Equality;
2. Extract the main ideas and steps of measuring: 1. Define your construct; 2. Choose a measuring instrument; 3. Follow procedure; 4. Get the output.
3. Take the material “Cracking the code: girls’ and women’s education…, chose different parts of it, and measure/assess it due to the first article;
4. Do the measurements on your surroundings and compare them with what’s written in the book.

MATERIALS:

Download/print this plan of the activity (pdf).

SOURCES:

• https://www.genderscilab.org/blog/measuring-gender-equality-why-the-gggi-is-not-the-right-measure-for-gender-equality-paradox-research#:~:text=Options%20include%20the%20United%20Nations,and%20Gender%20Index%20(SIGI).

• Cracking the code: girls’ and women’s education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). UNESCO