Unit 5

The final unit, Unit five is about moving forward.

So taking what we've learned in this course and

what are the next steps,

what can we do about it?

What is our role as someone who has completed this course?

So first we're going to talk about the current solutions that do exist and that other

people and countries have started implementing and what

some of the results of that is.

So what do they do?

What were the results and then what can we take away from that in our own lives?

So the first solution is just formal education itself.

So in 1995 we saw that many countries in their governments were attempting to

create more equitable education practices and they

provided gender sensitive training for the teachers.

They made attempts to create content that

was more balanced and representative of the students

and they conducted training to help eliminate the bias and

sexist tendencies on behalf of some of the teachers,

which we have discussed previously.

One of the major weaknesses was that the implementation and intervention

was on behalf of the government and the school systems,

which we know that there needs to be more

intervention on behalf of the parents,

the students themselves and especially the teachers.

So, one

solution to improve this

implementation would be just

more teacher training programs to adequately prepare them with understanding

um the content that they're teaching,

especially when it comes to computer science education and rallying more

government support for funding for more lower socioeconomic status students.

Another solution was the Gate project which was conducted in Nepal.

So it was a project

created for young preteen and teenage girls that had

not been educated or dropped out for whatever reasons.

And not only did it focus on education of math, science, reading,

but it also focused on health psychology and empowerment courses.

So this empowerment umbrella

was very humanities based, very understanding abuse,

understanding the pursue alot of education,

understanding awareness with more difficult topics such as human trafficking.

one critique of this was it was

unsure and unclear if these topics were cohesive with the traditional curriculum.

So teaching them simultaneous would leave with some of the stem courses

or if it kind of overpowered and shifted the attention to something else

but

a for future implementation and solution of

this would be just better integration into

primary courses so that they can learn both of these at the same time,

they are learning these life skills and life

lessons as well as their normal courses.

The final solution that we're going to talk about is pro mujer,

which was a program done in Bolivia.

So this program was more of a holistic

education and it was targeted towards older women

Were later in their life and had not received a proper education.

So it was teaching financial literacy loan services

and did an incredible job of pipe lining women

into leadership positions in their community at a 64%

rate and increasing their financial awareness by 67%.

As mentioned,

one of the biggest weaknesses was that the focus

of the program was on older adult women.

So extending this program to

primary and secondary levels of education so that these young

girls would be able to develop the same understanding and literacy

and carry that further in their life.

Next, what are some sustainable practices? So it's all good and well too,

Increased funding, increased teacher capabilities,

increase access to these programs.

But how can we make sure that not only now, but 10 years down the line,

these programs still exist.

So the youth, one of the biggest areas of improving sustainability,

comes from engaging students at a very young age around preschool in kindergarten,

When we see dropout in middle school,

this can typically be prevented by providing a more

concrete foundation for these students.

Education is very, very crucial at that age

and exposing them technology to technology and stem

courses such as computer science at that young age

gives them the ability to build that

strong foundation and critical thinking skills,

problem solving skills and analytical skills.

Another is computer science in general.

So it's one thing to provide the computers and the internet,

but building more sustainable relationship with volunteers in the community

um,

to continue the program and establishing a system

that has low future costs to improve continuance.

Oftentimes, we see that a lot of these computers have maintenance costs,

so ensuring that enough

prerequisite work has been done so that these costs

are not as burdensome on the school themselves.

Yeah.

Next we'll talk about the job market. So

what are some things that you might encounter past the level of education?

So we see um

we've seen an increase in job availability and kind

of a shift from broad based industries to services.

So moving from agriculture to more things like I. T.

Services and specialized things,

but we do still see high levels of gender segregation in the workplace.

We see lower pay,

gender bias with promotion and a lot of

the gender norms and religious countries prevent women from

pursuing careers.

So what are the opportunities like we mentioned in the international market?

There's a huge pool for humans with higher

education as there's less reliant on raw materials,

which is what developing countries are typically known to contribute.

Technology is a huge chunk of the economic sector in many countries.

That increasing the human capital would boost the

economy and therefore empowered citizens as well.

The more citizens that are educated in these stem and especially computer science

curriculums

are better equipped to get jobs on a global scale

for you now,

we're going to talk about career preparation moving forward from this course,

What can you take away?

So this week's essay talk about a career that you are interested in.

What are the job role requirements?

What are the courses of actions for you to achieve those requirements?

And then in the discussion section discuss what

are some things that you're concerned about with.

When we talk about levels of education,

we see that higher levels of education are directly correlated

to higher mediums of weekly earnings and lower unemployment rates.

So the higher levels of education that you're able to achieve,

the more you're typically going to make,

okay

goal setting.

So obviously participating in computer science courses is going to increase your

prowess and

um

availability,

jobs are more likely to want to hire you.

One suggestion is finding a woman in your field of interest

in reaching out seeing what they did to get there.

Do they like it there?

Making a list yearly of what goals you want to accomplish within that year,

Whether that's what courses you want to take,

what extracurricular activities you want to do

resume editing is a huge, huge

benefit, sending your resume to multiple people

and getting their feedback on. Is it easy to read? Is it too convoluted

research is often directly related to job opportunities.

If you're able to be a

highly, if you're able to highly research a specific area and be an expert

that is often more appealing to a job

manipulating linkedin and other social media to reach out to recruiters.

There's a lot of conferences specifically for women into stem such

as Grace Hopper where a lot of companies will come and recruit

and improving general social skills a lot of times,

especially in stem we come across

men who are lacking of social skills. They just know how to code and that's it.

And in today's day and age social skills are what recruiters are looking for.

They want people who have the technical prowess,

but also the social ability to talk through their problems,

finally becoming an ambassador.

So what have you learned and what do you do now?

We want to heavily heavily encourage you to become a mentor

to become an ally of women and to advocate for developing countries.

Oftentimes they're the ones that are most neglected.

This is a list of some of the programs globally that are working on female education,

improving computer science education,

improving the quality of female lives in these developing countries.

We highly recommend you look into some of these programs and companies.

That's it for unit three.

Obviously the tip of the iceberg with regards to what you can do moving forward.

But this provides a nice basic stepping stone into what the future may hold

Unit 5

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