Examining the effect of counternarratives about physics on women’s physics career intentions
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G. Potvin, Z. Hazari, Raina Khatri
Physical Review Physics Education Research
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Abstract
Women and many people of color continue to be minoritized in STEM and notably in physics. We conducted two studies demonstrating that exposure to counternarratives about who does physics and why one does physics significantly increases high school students — especially women ’ s — physics-related career intentions. These counternarratives facilitate making connections with students ’ career plans and help in sensemaking causes for the continued minoritization of women in physics. Two separate studies measured the impacts of these interventions on students ’ physics-related career intentions: first, with an intentionally selected group of teachers (10 teachers, 823 students) across regions and contexts in the U