National Mental Health Commissioner and former Macquarie Bank executive Lucy Brogden failed every mathematics exam she sat until the Higher School Certificate.
“We track the impacts from when mum says ‘I wasn’t good at maths’ through to gender bias and discrimination at work. Attitudes to money impact across a woman’s life cycle from when an Australian girl gets 25 per cent less in pocket money through to women retiring with 45 per cent less in superannuation,” Ms Jose said.
The documentary features a program at St Matthew’s Catholic School in Mudgee that has been teaching year 10 students to do statistics, with a particular focus on encouraging girls to get involved. Dr Louise Puslednik is on secondment to the Catholic Education Office as the STEM education officer in Sydney.Dr Puslednik, a STEM co-ordinator with Catholic Education, said the data over three years showed students who did the program had significantly greater VALID scores - an external science test - than students who didn’t participate.
Ms Brogden was encouraged to pursue a psychology degree— and overcome her fear that an inability to do maths meant she wouldn’t be able to do the statistics required — by her husband, former NSW politician John Brogden.
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