{"id":223666,"date":"2023-01-24T20:12:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223666"},"modified":"2023-02-20T18:41:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T13:11:53","slug":"open-iit-gates-more-women-are-taking-a-crack-at-the-jee-good-because-this-gender-disparity-was-glaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/open-iit-gates-more-women-are-taking-a-crack-at-the-jee-good-because-this-gender-disparity-was-glaring\/","title":{"rendered":"Open IIT Gates &#8211; More women are taking a crack at the JEE. Good, because this gender disparity was glaring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cOpen IIT Gates &#8211; More women are taking a crack at the JEE. Good, because this gender disparity was glaring\u201d <\/strong>published in <b>The Times of India <\/b>on\u00a0<b>24th January 2023<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About women students in STEM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: Girls routinely outperform boys in boards and medical entrance. But in JEE, the results have long highlighted glaring gendered disparity.\u00a0For the first time this year, women make up 30% of the IIT-JEE applicant pool.<\/p>\n<h2>About women students in STEM?<\/h2>\n<p>In India, women make up 43% of the STEM education pool, one of the highest ratios in the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are a few shortcomings. Such as <strong>a)<\/strong> Lack of interest in scientific and technical education, <strong>b)<\/strong> Implicit biases and the lack of role models for women in the field of STEM, <strong>c)<\/strong> The JEE exam usually requires years of intensive coaching in faraway locations, and <strong>d)<\/strong> Students from rural and lower-income backgrounds also do not pursue JEE.<\/p>\n<h2>How does the government is improving women students in STEM?<\/h2>\n<p>The government has made active interventions to spark girls\u2019 interest in STEM studies. Such as <strong>a)<\/strong> There is a horizontal \u2018supernumerary\u2019 quota in IITs. This gives women who have passed the JEE Advanced an edge in courses of their choice and has improved the presence of women to 20% on IIT campuses, <strong>b)<\/strong> Institutions are assessed for their gender inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>IITs must make sure that disparities don\u2019t come in the way of talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cOpen IIT Gates &#8211; More women are taking a crack at the JEE. Good, because this gender disparity was glaring\u201d published in The Times of India on\u00a024th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues relating to the development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education. Relevance:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/open-iit-gates-more-women-are-taking-a-crack-at-the-jee-good-because-this-gender-disparity-was-glaring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open IIT Gates &#8211; More women are taking a crack at the JEE. Good, because this gender disparity was glaring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-223666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700811919,"cached_date":1704836983},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}