People who enter a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) face many challenges, and women in these fields face challenges from before their career even begins. From a very young age, girls are not encouraged to pursue their interests in math and science in the same way as boys their age. From the beginning, girls who are interested in STEM fields are at a disadvantage.
This semester, I will focus mainly on the audience that is given information to help women succeed in STEM careers and why the intended audience is often never given the information. This is due to larger sociocultural contexts of the communities where these women live.
I will use pathos to appeal to the audience’s emotions and values. I want them to see that everyone deserves the same opportunities, and everyone is capable of achieving anything they want. I will also use logos to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. I want the audience to realize that women are given less opportunities. I hope this opens the audience’s eyes to their everyday comments and actions that could discourage young girls from reaching their full potential. Although these terms will be a helpful tool to communicate the topic to my audience, they are limiting what I do because there are more effective ways to change the minds of the audience. But I do not agree with using techniques such as violence or threats to get my point across.
To address this topic with my audience, I think pamphlets and a social media campaign would be most effective. This topic is not technical, so I think it would be best to give the most people some information that they could research more on their own. The pamphlet could have internet resources on it that would help in the audience’s research. I think a series of tweets would be a very effective way to get the information out to a large audience. This is because people could retweet the entire thread or just a single tweet that they agree with. This would reach all of their followers, and then their followers would also be exposed to the information.