Technology

Rae’s Hope Prepares Girls For A Technology-Driven Society.

Rae’s Hope introduces and teaches various technology applications, and tools.

This program offers a hands-on understanding on how engineers, teachers, IT professionals, and others utilize these tools within their field.

Testimonials

What Parent Say

“Since being a part of Rae’s Hope my daughter’s confidence has spiked. Her communication skills are growing and her conversation has gotten better when she meets new people. She has shown a lot of improvement with her physical fitness and she really enjoys playing and exercising. She’s developed a lot of new relationships even with the older Rae’s Hope girls. Her attitude has stayed positive. Her focus in school I feel like has improved some. I think she has learned to tune out a lot of the distractions in the classroom and yearns to be the best.”

-Parent of Aubrey Morrison

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Quick Facts

The country and world continues to see disparities in engineering, and computer science careers for women and people of color.
Women make up half of the total U.S. college-educated workforce, but only 28% of the science and engineering workforce. (NSF, Science & Engineering Indicators, 2018)
Female scientists and engineers are concentrated in different occupations than are men, with relatively high shares of women in the social sciences (60%) and biological, agricultural, and environmental life sciences (48%) and relatively low shares in engineering (15%) and computer and mathematical sciences (26%). (NSF, Science & Engineering Indicators, 2018)
Hispanics, blacks, and American Indians/Alaska Natives make up a smaller share of the science and engineering workforce (11%) than their proportion in the general population (27% of U.S. working age population). (NSF, Science & Engineering Indicators, 2018)

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Women Careers

Rae’s Hope believes women, and those of color, should be properly represented in STEM careers. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, math test scores for girls have been consistently equal to or within two points of boys in fourth and eighth grades over several years; middle school girls pass algebra at higher rates than boys. In science, girls perform on par with boys and enroll in advanced science and math courses at equal rates as they move into high school.

However, a gender gap in participation starts to appear as girls take fewer of the more advanced STEM courses and tests as they get closer to college. This gap widens the longer girls are in school and is often compounded by issues of race and class.