Not addressing diversity issues within STEM will hold society back from becoming the best it can be, as Anne-Marie Imafidon explained at Inspirefest 2018.
According to Anne-Marie Imafidon, only 25pc of those working in STEM in Ireland are women. This is not a statistic that is acceptable, particularly to Imafidon, who strongly believes that STEM should be “for the many, not the few”.
It is statistics like these that inspired her to co-found Stemettes, an initiative that introduces young girls to STEM environments in order to help them better visualise working in fields that are stereotypically dominated by white men.
To hear more about Imafidon’s programme, check out her address to the Inspirefest 2018 crowd.
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Words by Eva Short
