While advocating for equality of opportunity, UK Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch warned that a focus on “prejudice and discrimination” is “segregating people into groups.”
On Wednesday, Badenoch spoke at the Science and Technology Select Committee, which was taking evidence on the reasons why there is a lack of women and ethnic minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths, or STEM.
Badenoch studied STEM subjects in Nigeria as well as computer systems engineering at the University of Sussex, southeast England, completing an MEng in 2003.
She noted one barrier as to why some may underachieve in STEM was prejudice and discrimination, but it was not the only reason….