Conclusion

Hello!

Things have been hectic with our current situation of the COVID-19 pandemic—which altered my spring 2020 semester drastically. However, I finished my capstone project and it definitely was a weight lifted off my shoulders. Sara Derge and I are so proud of this project and how far we have come too. It was definitely more time-consuming than we anticipated and we had a certain period of time where we didn’t touch the project because of midterms, transitioning online, dealing with the pandemic, and finals.

I am so glad that we managed to partake and tackle this topic because it is a growing concern for both Sara and I. This social issue affects not only us and our peers at Ohio State University but also millions of other women across all Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields in various ages.

As this is a growing social concern, Sara and I wanted to qualitatively collect and report our data and results to add on top of the current published data. We included pivot tables in our results but we did not realize how time-consuming and thorough we had to be in them. YouTube was definitely handy with our learning of pivot tables too!

With how we qualitatively gathered our data, our capstone paper length is noticeably longer than most people’s and this is due to how we wanted to make sure we garnered every aspect of this social concern since it covers a large basis of people and fields. However, we felt that every word we included was pertinent to the data. Sara and I both hope you enjoy our women in STEM capstone project because we—as women in STEM—also learned a lot about this topic too!

P.S. If there is one thing that we hope you take away from our capstone project on women in STEM, it is that this social issue is so much more complex than anyone can think and it needs to be recognized in our society.