{"id":51,"date":"2015-02-22T15:44:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpblogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/?p=51"},"modified":"2015-03-26T09:07:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:07:57","slug":"what-do-you-do-with-a-math-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/2015\/02\/22\/what-do-you-do-with-a-math-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Do with a Math Degree?"},"content":{"rendered":"Apparently English and history majors aren\u2019t the only students quizzed by relatives and friends about what type of work they expect to find after graduation. Undergraduate females majoring in mathematics report in a <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.claremont.edu\/jhm\/vol5\/iss1\/3\/\">recent study<\/a> that they are frequently questioned about career options in mathematics, and even worse, they aren\u2019t sure what the options are. Katrina Piatek-Jimenez interviewed 12 women in her study, \u201cOn the Persistence and Attrition of Women in Mathematics,\u201d to examine in part why women who major in mathematics frequently move into careers not involving mathematics.\r\n\r\nThe students in this study seem to indicate women leave mathematics because they aren\u2019t made aware of the career options available to them. The majority of the young women interviewed wanted careers that helped others. Beyond becoming secondary math teachers, they weren\u2019t clear on how they could apply mathematics to helping. Several of the students in the study turned to their professors for career advice and discovered \u201ctheir professors did not appear to know much about careers outside of academia either\u201d (p.28). This isn\u2019t too surprising, since the professors wanted to stay in academics, they probably never paid much attention to other careers.\r\n\r\nLack of knowledge about career options is a reason for STEM attrition that I\u2019ve read again and again. There is a need for faculty, librarians, and career counselors to gather career information, make it accessible to STEM students in the first two years of college, and make them accountable for exploring it as part of coursework. We lose too many talented STEM students because they have no idea what careers are available, or because they have misperceptions of what STEM careers are like.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently English and history majors aren\u2019t the only students quizzed by relatives and friends about what type of work they expect to find after graduation. Undergraduate females majoring in mathematics report in a recent study that they are frequently questioned about career options in mathematics, and even worse, they aren\u2019t sure what the options are&#8230;.  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/2015\/02\/22\/what-do-you-do-with-a-math-degree\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read What Do You Do with a Math Degree?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[5,76,70,75,18],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-career_guidance","tag-education","tag-mathematics","tag-publications","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5tTwG-P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}