Greetings everyone, hope you're doing well. This is the one graduate student who is pursuing a master's degree in leadership studies. Regarding my background, I have a bachelor's degree in mathematics, and I'm here today to give a presentation about women in stem and expand on stereotypes. So we will start with stem. Stem is an abbreviation of four different disciplines. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. These disciplines are in you that existed throughout the history in mostly in every century, since the Dark Ages until today, innovations in stem are not stopping and not limited to Earth. Stem plays a significant role in the economy in the word future vision. And in fact, it gives power. Different countries have strived to compete in the global economy. Since that recognize the predicted consequences they could face, we're lacking innovation. And this pandemic vaccines is a great example of that. Now if we look at the United States today, mostly all students are required to learn science from first grade to 12th grade. And before entering college, the required to take certain number of science classes. And some high school offered additional courses like robotic, nursing, mechanical engineering, and etcetera. So moving on to our next section, which is women in stem. Despite all the great innovations in creation of educational programs and stem, women weren't the first to receive education. Historically, education started with privileged young men and religious WBS. During the Roman Empire, the nuns were the most educated women. Then education got offered to women from wealthy classes, and unfortunately was until the 19th and 20th centuries where women were finally able to access higher education. Until today, women aren't fully represented in all fields. Focusing on stem and considering statistics. Taken from previous studies. We have 25 percent of women and physical science, 15 percent in engineering, 26 percent in Computer Science in Mathematics, and 46% in biology. And now onto the third section of this presentation, which will be about my research as a stem students who knows about stereotypes and some of the challenges women face in stem. I was interested in researching whether stereotypes are contributing to women's low representation and stem. This is a qualitative design study where semi-structured interview method was used to collect data. 10 employed are studying women from different stem fields who had over one year of experience where we stopped to. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed for common themes and sub-themes for validation strategy. Clarifying and debriefing were used. In addition to the faculty advisor who supported me throughout this journey. A second reader with a PhD background reviewed the research. Moreover, a clear section about my background is included in the research to explain how this research interpretation are influenced by my stem background. Regarding the findings. These are the five generated themes. Starting with the first theme, I just want to highlight that representation in biology fields varies and not like anticipated. Meaning women are not highly represented in all fields that are biology related. Generally, women are also absent in fields that are soft skills, technical depended, and in leadership positions as well. Now for requirements, stem require someone who can speak up, ask questions, and interrupt others when needed. Moreover, this field requires time, effort, training, and opportunities. According to many participants, training or opportunities are not provided equally for different genders. And lastly, there is a special dress code in stem, which means that dressing too feminine or wearing makeup may affect women negatively. It can lead to underestimation. Due to the image many cultures graded about who should be in stem. Females encountered many difficulties such as underestimation from others and getting question twice. Others may be discouraged from proceeding and stem. And according to participants, positions for women in stem aren't always technical related. And this Ingress many passionate, an ambitious females. To conclude, this theme, underestimation can lead to negative impact. Put women under stress, play with their securities and result in doubling time and effort. When it comes to confidence and self, sometimes the vocabularies, women yours can't downplay them when it comes to expressing knowledge. For example, I don't know about this or not sure how to do that. In addition, hearing negative comments may lead women to lose confidence in self and fit, dress their own ability. Feeling they will always be viewed somehow wrong. They may doubt themself in loosest sense of belonging or feel they don't fit. And the stem environment. Mentorship is huge in stem, women need individuals who share same background in is more able to understand their journeys and relate to their experiences. More mentors means more role models. Now having more women in stem means females would be inspired, motivated, and encouraged to take similar path. Stereotypes would be decreased. And women we didn't need to feel the pressure of being on the spot. Then for the last feet, all participants recommended women to work heart. Take advantages of opportunities. Highlight their work. Be stubborn and strong, have thick skin, face challenges. Be resilient, set boundaries, self-reflect, half passion. Step out of comfort zone, have faith and trust and self ability and have confidence. As a conclusion, stereotypes brings challenges. Lead women to leave or show low interest in stem. Low representation is they're guaranteeing those women who are in stem. Cool to train women to be feminine, seek positions that are common for women. And the absence of role model is certainly affecting. The first solutions participants recommended to raise awareness about stereotypes challenges, great events, workshops, community for women to examples and bring or highlight role models to educate public, share effective stories. They also recommended to highlight accomplishments, challenges, experiences. Women soft skills ability encouraged women to attend conferences and advocate for the need to receive same resources, equal opportunities slash training in fair education. Here concluded my presentation. While this topic is wild, there is a lot to do and it, my hope is that people who find this research helpful and we'll build on to it in the future. This research is not only dissipated to help women, but the hope is to also educate and help the public, the community, the stem profession, and the stem education. For any questions or comments, please refer to the email provided on the screen. Thank you for your time and take care.