GENDER REPRESENTATION IN THE WORKPLACE
AN INSIDE LOOK INTO REAL WOMEN'S EXPERIENCES
Panel Guests:
(from left to right)
Lynn Andersson- Professor of Business, Society, and Ethics at Temple University Fox School of Business in the Human Resource Management Department.
Suchetha Subramaniam- Student at Temple University Fox School of Business, double majoring in International Business and Spanish.
Leticia De Silva- Works on the business intelligence team for Braskem America, a petrochemical company based in Brazil. Her background is in chemical engineering.
Samantha Haines- Student at Drexel University, majoring in biomedical engineering.
Yuval Yarden- Works at Philly Startup Leaders, and helps to grow the tech community and small business start ups in Philadelphia.
As the final part of our capstone project, we hosted a panel with guest speakers that were all women in underrepresented fields. Through this panel, we were looking to educate underclassmen about the obstacles that women face in the workplace, especially in STEM and business careers. We had two women in engineering careers and three women in business careers. Each of us reached out to many women in engineering and business careers, and asked them to join us for an information session in the drama studio. We invited four classes to listen and ask questions to these women about their obstacles in the workplace and how they have overcome them. Overall, the panel was very successful. We had each guest introduce themselves and answer the question, "what is it like being a woman in an underrepresented field?" Then, the students had a chance to ask the panelists questions. The questions that the students asked were very insightful and lead to interesting conversations.
The panel was held at our school on May 12th, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Below are pictures, information about the guest speakers, and the full video of the panel.
GENDER REPRESENTATION
PANEL
Videos of the Panel: