Gender Bias and Women in STEMM

A special report from The Australian explores gender bias for women in engineering and more broadly, STEMM.

PhD candidate Aimee Allen of the Department of ECSE Monash University is investigating human-robot interaction, specifically the sounds robots could make - or should make - around humans.

While most of her lab and work colleagues are men, Aimee says she hasn’t experienced too much gender bias in her years at school or university.

Acknowledging that Monash University is pro-women, she also says "Overall women studying STEM have struggled and were underestimated for far too long. Obviously we’ve got several decades to catch up on from when places weren’t equal.”

Read The Australian article in full here.