Zoe Bond

12/18/18

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1.)

Funk, C. and Parker K. (2018, January 09). Racial diversity and discrimination in the
U.S. STEM workforce. Retrieved from
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2018/01/09/blacks-in-stem-jobs-are-especially-concerned-about
-diversity-and-discrimination-in-the-workplace/

This relevant article was written by Cary Funk and Kim Parker explains how minorities

are underrepresented in STEM jobs and non-STEM jobs, and how one in eight Americans have

said that their ethnicity has made it more difficult to achieve success in their jobs. The article

also mentioned how African American STEM employees are more likely to say they have

experienced discrimination at work compared to Asians and Hispanics. The article also discusses

some reasons why minorities do not join into STEM and one important one is the lack

educational opportunities in highschool and in college. The articles continues to discuss the

concern in diversity and discrimination in STEM.

The authors, Cary Funk and Kim Parker, are both qualified to discuss this topic because

Cary Funk’s credentials include a doctorate and a master’s in social psychology from the

University of California, Los Angeles and her experience include being the director of science

and society research at Pew Research Center. She has also specialized in public understanding of

science topics and has broad expertise in political and social attitudes, including American

politics and elections, race and ethnicity, and religion. She is currently on the editorial board of

the ​Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society​ and her contact information is included in the

article. The other author is Kim Parker and her credentials include a master’s degree in American
government from Georgetown University and a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College. Her

experience include being the current the director of social trends research at Pew Research

Center were she oversees research on emerging social and demographic trends, manages major

survey projects, and writes and edits reports. Her contact information is also included in the

article. Written on January 9, 2018, this source is current on the topic of is very relevant because

it shows the lack of minorities seen in STEM workplaces. ​The coverage can be considered broad

and deep because it goes into depth about how minorities are underrepresented in STEM by

showing current data. The information contained in the source can be verified elsewhere. For

example, the author says discrimination in the workplace due to race between blacks in STEM

vs. non-STEM jobs is seen a lot, which can be corroborated by a survey made by the Pew

Research Center in their publication that mentioned that how discrimination is seen a lot in the

workplace for minorities. The purpose of this article is to explain that people of color are facing

racial diversity in jobs not just in STEM . The audience are minorities who might want to join

STEM as a future career in life.

2.)

Kugler, A., Tinsley, C., Ukhaneva​, O. (2 November 2017)​Why there aren't more women
in STEM fields. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://voxeu.org/article/why-there-arent-more-women-stem-fields

The article written by Adriana Kugler, Catherine Tinsley and Olga Ukhanova discusses

the some of the reasons why women are not in STEM. One factor is that is that ​women

predominantly choose careers such as humanities, education, and some of the social sciences

instead of STEM. The article then mentions that many girls do not get pre-college preparation

and do not have role models to look up in the fields of STEM. The article’s main focus is to

understand how the gender gap in STEM and how college career choices correspond to why

there is a lack of women in STEM.

The authors, Adriana Kugler, Catherine Tinsley, and Olga Ukhaneva are all qualified to

discuss the lack of women in STEM. Adriana Kugler credentials include a ​Ph.D. from the

University of California at Berkeley and her BA from McGill University. Her experiences

include being a Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and

she served as Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor in 2011 and 2012, where she

worked on developing policies. ​Catherine Tinsley credentials include a Ph.d. Her experiences

include being the ​Raffini Family Professor of Management at Georgetown University’s

McDonough School of Business, Faculty Director of the Georgetown University Women’s

Leadership Institute, and is the Academic Director of Georgetown McDonough Executive

Master’s in Leadership program. ​Olga Ukhaneva credentials include a ​ Ph.D. in economics from

Georgetown University. Her experiences include being a Managing Consultant at Navigant

Economics and she previously held a position of Research Assistant Professor at McDonough
School of Business at Georgetown University. ​And all of their contact information are included

in the article.Written 2 years, this source is current and relevant. ​The coverage can be considered

broad and deep because they reference other sources that showed the that there is a relationship

between women and potential careers. But, the article was a little bias because the tone of it

proved to show that the authors felt strongly that the reason why women do not go into STEM

originates in choices of majors in college, however, it is known that are many factors to why

there is a lack of women in STEM. The information contained in the source can be verified

elsewhere at the end of article as they have a publication to where they got there data to show the

relationship between women and STEM. For example, the authors said that many women do not

go into STEM major in college which can be corroborated by another article written by the same

authors in their publication mentions that almost 60% of women change majors in college which

is a lot more than men. The purpose of this article is to show some of the reasons ways women

do not go into STEM. The audience is that this article is towarding to is to girls in highschool

and women in college who are thinking to switch majors from STEM to something else.