ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by presenting the learning outcomes and explores the problem of the persistent lack of diversity in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and film workforce. Several strategies are offered that could be utilized to address the under-representation of diversity in STEM academic disciplines and the STEM workforce. To gather a variety of perspectives on why the lack of diversity in the STEM workforce persists, a brief discussion on what studies, the media, researchers and scholars have uncovered about this problem will be presented, along with what they are recommending to address this quandary. Moreover, films possess the power to educate and persuade people in positive or negative ways. However, what the film workforce and their films are lacking is racial and ethnic minorities in acting, screen writing, directing, and creating; women in directing and screen writing; and minority and female members on the Oscars governing and voting board.
