Success Of Life

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The Success of Life Julius Erving once said, “The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.” Success in one’s life is extremely important to them and those of the surrounding environment. A person’s success changes constantly, depending on many factors like outside forces and events that occur during their lifetime, starting from the day they were born into the world. Everyone is destined to fail at some point in life, but it is how one will react to failure that really matters. The obstacles a person faces, whether they are mental, physical, or social, will impact the outcome of their success. Success can differ because of someone’s mental state of health and mentality towards …show more content…

In recent years, studies have shown that the STEM (Science -Technology- Engineering- Math) field has an uneven balance of men and women due to bias and incorrect beliefs. The article “New UNESCO report sheds light on gender inequality in STEM education”, it is written that “Girls’ disadvantage in STEM is a result of multiple and overlapping factors embedded in both the socialisation and learning processes. These include social, cultural and gender norms, which influence the way girls and boys are brought up, learn and interact with parents, family, friends, teachers and the wider community” (UNESCO 1). Although it has since been proven wrong, women were once banned from STEM fields because they were ‘inferior’ to men. Unfortunately, some people still believe this and become a large obstacle standing in the way of gender equality in general. Their bias makes it hard for women to be successful, or to pursue their career in the fields of either science or math. In their article, “The effect of gender on research staff success in life sciences in the Spanish National Research Council,” authors Elba Mauleón, María Bordons and Charles Oppenheim write of women’s inequality: “Two main ways of action were recommended. On the one hand, the need to collect precise and reliable data regarding the situation of women in science, education and technology; on the other, the need for proper identification and further elimination of barriers and inequalities that tie women to certain scientific fields and also limit women’s access to the top ranks in the scientific career,” (Mauleón, Bordons, and Oppenheim 213). Here, the authors are suggesting that in order to help women overcome their disadvantage, more evidence should be collected regarding the situation before taking any action. If this were to happen, more would

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