The Under-Representation Of Women

Women and girls are most important members of society, since they are responsible for making a society educated and preparing the new generation for the different competitions that are to be faced by them. This is the reason that today there importance has been fully accepted and fully recognised by the people of the society in different fields, and aspects of life. Furthermore, it has been seen that the families are allowing females to select all those fields, in which they are interested. The biggest example of this is the politics of different nations, where women are having their rights recognised. United Kingdom also comes in these countries, since there are several female politicians, who are the Member of Parliament.
However, on the other hand, there are some fields in the United Kingdom, where still female ration is very less. STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) is one of them, where females are highly under-represented. There are several reasons for this situation within the country such as confidence, biological problems, structural issues and much more. However, this could not be ignored that the women participation in these field is also very important for the success of the country. The aim of this literature review is to provide an understanding of STEM and under-representation of women …show more content…
One reason is associated with the structural changes or elements. These structural elements are connected with two different concepts isolation such as territorial and hierarchical. Where, territorial isolation tells about the group of women in some specific fields. This is not related to the interest of women, but this is a concept of trends, which is observed in UK. For instance, in UK, there is a trend that women are linked with the fields of social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, they want to teach others for the same subjects (Spodek,