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A Perfect Storm
How Differences in Privilege and Power Can Lead to Subtle but Potent Inequities in STEM Education
This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that differences in social class—along with unequal distributions of privilege and power—led to the race, gender, and class-based inequities that I observed at the public institution. I present this article to open a conversation about how the intersection of race with characteristics such as gender, social class, and national origin can have an impact on disparities in STEM education.
This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that differences in social class—along with unequal distributions of privilege and power—led to the race, gender, and class-based inequities that I observed at the public institution.
This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that differences in social class—along with unequal distributions of privilege and power—led to the race, gender, and class-based inequities that I observed at the public institution.
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