{"id":373,"date":"2021-02-23T16:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T16:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/?page_id=373"},"modified":"2021-03-08T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T17:04:48","slug":"the-gender-gap-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/samples\/the-gender-gap-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"The gender gap in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have developed a preliminary machine learning model that, trained only with a handful of features, is able to predict the share of female graduates in STEM disciplines, primarily ICT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"824\" src=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Percentage_Female_SCI_MATH_Graduates_RF-1024x824.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Percentage_Female_SCI_MATH_Graduates_RF-1024x824.png 1024w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Percentage_Female_SCI_MATH_Graduates_RF-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Percentage_Female_SCI_MATH_Graduates_RF-768x618.png 768w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Percentage_Female_SCI_MATH_Graduates_RF-1536x1236.png 1536w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Percentage_Female_SCI_MATH_Graduates_RF.png 1687w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not claim this is a realistic model in any way. Firstly, I am not competent to accomplish this job in a rigorous way and, secondly, relevant data is still too scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the procedure I have followed may provide a few hints on what descriptors may be relevant and how to identify them. For that purpose and that purpose only, I have made available a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/The_Muslim_Paradox.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">bargain-basement report<\/a> with a provocative name. No offence intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have also made the scripts and most of the data (some files seems to be too big) available in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mirix\/stem\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mirix\/stem\" target=\"_blank\">GitHub<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"sciting.eu\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"286\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sciting_logo_medium.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sciting_logo_medium.png 286w, https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sciting_logo_medium-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have developed a preliminary machine learning model that, trained only with a handful of features, is able to predict the share of female graduates in STEM disciplines, primarily ICT. I do not claim this is a realistic model in any way. Firstly, I am not competent to accomplish this job in a rigorous way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":79,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/373\/revisions\/400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciting.eu\/sciting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}