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Challenges Facing Women In STEM: Recognizing and Managing Bias and Identity Threat

The stereotype of most science, technology, engineering, and math fields is that "STEM is for men." Additionally, men are over-represented at almost every level of STEM participation, both inside and outside of academia.  Together, this gender imbalance in scientific environments and the gendered nature of science stereotypes signal to women that STEM isn't for them.  […]

Affirming Gender, Accessing Change: What do Adolescent Trans Patients Teach us About Health Care Access?

Arthur M. Sackler Sciences Center, 122

Gender is complicated, and so is gender care.  This talk will review the science of sexual development to demonstrate, objectively, that sex is more complicated than a simple binary and to look at the ways in which gender identity development appears to be affected by multiple biological processes.  It will then examine how developing a […]