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It’s Intl Day of Women and Girls in Science

Celebrate by learning about some incredible women and their contributions to science with our Encyclopedia on our website! includeher.au/scientists 💜

#InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience #WomenInSTEM

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Did you know science stories we repeat, often omit women? 😬

#IncludeHer is developing workshops to counter these narratives ✨
📘 curriculum-aligned + evidence-based
👩‍🏫 teacher professional dev options

Follow us to stay tuned for more details!

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New episode in time for #IWD where I get to talk to @astrokatross.bsky.social about the work of #IncludeHer - giving credit where credit is due for the science we're learning about today.
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Australian Highlights and celebrating the people behind them

Happy International Women's Day!

We at #IncludeHer strive to ensure that #WomenInSTEM are visible in our high school curricula 💜

@astrokatross.bsky.social spoke with the amazing folks at Australian Highlights about our mission!

Give it a listen here: australianhighlights.com.au/katross

#IWD25

Check out this fantastic thread! 🧵💜

Our team is working towards making sure that women scientists and their work are no longer invisible in the science courses we teach in schools ✨

#IncludeHer #WomenInSTEM

#IncludeHer - Resources We are in the process of creating resources for educators and broader public to use in the classroom and share with their community. To get you started, here is an Encyclopaedia of Women Scientists we...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧬🪐🧑‍🔬✨

A huge shout out to all the #WomenInSTEM for being amazing every day of the year 💪

Learn about some the incredible women scientists and their work at includeher.au/resources

"You learn a lot in hindsight, and while I didn’t realise it at the time, my high school physics teacher, a woman, had a huge impact on my motivation to pursue a career in physics."

- @astronerdika.bsky.social, on how impactful role models are

Read more: www.spaceaustralia.com/opinions/its...

@astronerdika.bsky.social is one of our incredible team members who has been with #IncludeHer since the start.

She's written an incredible summary and opinion piece with @spaceausdotcom.bsky.social with everything you need to know about our paper 🔥

Female Scientist School Curriculum Representation - Behind The News When you learn about the achievements and discoveries of scientists, how many are women?

We're Behind The News!

Thanks to ABC BTN for the amazing video of the impacts of our recent paper!

Check out the fab interview below (including some surprise appearances from a couple of our authors!)

www.abc.net.au/btn/classroo...

#WomenInSTEM

Image of cover of journal paper with the title “Invisible women: gender representation in high school science courses across Australia”

Check out this paper! ✨

This research is outside my usual bubble, but is something I’m passionate about: #ScienceEducation and #WomenInSTEM

We did a study and found a clear gender bias in senior high school science curricula across Australia 😱

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Out of 150 mentions of scientists in Australian STEM school curricula, only 1 is a woman. What century are we living in??

Check out the research article published today by the incredible group @includeher.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Image of cover of journal paper with the title “Invisible women: gender representation in high school science courses across Australia”

Research is truly collaborative, and our study was no different.

Our team is from all around the country for various institutions and backgrounds.

What we have in common? A passion for STEM and STEM education! 💜

#IncludeHer #WomenInSTEM

🚨Paper alert!🚨

Our IncludeHer paper is live 📝

#WomenInSTEM

We were surprised too! We we're expecting Marie Curie to be mentioned, was that the same with you?

This is really disappointing. Women in STEM rock and need more acknowledgment.

Absolutely! There's some absolutely incredible research that women have and continue to do!

We should be learning about this work rather than undervaluing the research from women

Summary statistics for NSW

Summary statistics for WA

Meanwhile other states take a ‘concept and scientist’ approach, but they fail to mention the contributions of female scientists (e.g. notably, Marie Curie under the topic of radioactivity!) ☢️

If this approach is taken, curricula should also talk about female scientists and their contributions.

Summary statistics for the ACT

Summary statistics for VIC

ACT and VIC take a ‘concept’ approach, avoiding mentions of scientists where possible.

Since many laws/methods were named after men due to historical reasons, this approach does not tell the full story and implicitly promotes the ‘lone-male genius’ narrative.

Image of 7 pie charts showing the types of mentions in STEM school curricula. The results vary dramatically across states.

We studied high school STEM curricula to explore the representation of male & female scientists in these courses.

We also checked if a name was mentioned because it's about the *person* (scientist) or if it's a law/idea *named after* the person (concept).

The results vary dramatically!

Image with 145 names of scientists. One female scientist's name among the list is in bold text.

Out of the 145 scientists mentioned in the high school curricula we studied, only 1 female scientist was named.

Rosalind Franklin.

This is a problem, and we are working with education depts. To fix this

Learn about our mission at includeher.au

Image of 7 pie charts showing the number of male and female scientists that are mentioned in STEM school curricula. There are almost no mentions of female scientists.

Let's break down our research across the states and territories.

Only QLD and SA/NT curricula make any mentions of female scientists.

1 female scientist. Any guesses who?

Pie chart showing the number of male vs female scientists mentioned in a selection of AUS STEM science curricula for yr 11/12. There are 144 males and 1 female mentioned.

We did some research on senior school science curricula across Australia. We looked at Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Science 🧬🧪✨🪴

And what we found was both alarming and disappointing.

Only 1 female scientist is mentioned across all courses 😱

Only one female scientist is mentioned in Australian high school science curricula Australian high school science courses are failing to mention the contributions of women in science subjects, according to new research.

Huge congrats to @astrokatross.bsky.social for starting the @includeher.bsky.social movement (trust me - go and follow!) with their research published in the Australian Journal of Education regarding the lack of women scientists in the Australian school curriculum and the plan to change this!

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Where are the women? High school STEM curriculum pushes ‘lone male genius’ narrative A study of curriculums for year 11 and 12 science subjects across the country found only three states mention the work of a female scientist in their coursework – and she was from Britain.

It's our research in the news!

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Science is a *human* endeavour.

And yet, we continue to teach students as if it were only a *male* endeavour.

We're trying to change that.

Welcome to #IncludeHer! We're a not-for-profit working to correct gender biases in science education, follow along to learn about our research!