The importance of friends for stopping leakage from the STEM pipeline
Friends with more traditional gender norms push girls out of the STEM-pipeline.
About
Maaike van der Vleuten, PhD, works as a researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and as associate professor in sociology (Docent) at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University She studies the work and family life of parents in queer and adoptive families (PI of project funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfonds) and life course trajectories of male and female same-sex couples in Finland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands . (funded by a VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) .
Podcast "de facinatievolger" (in Dutch)
In een podcastreeks interviewt Judith Lengkeek (Verte Vertelling) een serie wetenschappers over de rol die nieuwsgierigheid en fascinatie in hun werk speelt.
Mother's generate gender differences in field of study choices
Mothers - not fathers - seem to socialize their children into gender-specific fields of study.