“Over the past decade, Qatar's and Oman's governments have invested heavily in both girls' education and STEM fields in general: science, technology, engineering, and math."There is a big push to improve the quality of education, particularly around subjects that are seen as important for the post–hydrocarbon economy," says Isobel Coleman, author of Youthquake, an upcoming book on education reform in the Middle East.
The Gulf states are "the only place in the world I know of where women outperform men" in science and tech, says Coleman, author of an upcoming book on the Middle East.
The young women competing in St. Petersburg say they can't remember school without computers and computer science classes, and some found their interest sparked even further when they were taught to code in high school.”
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