Few of my acquaintances are high school teachers and almost all the girls have an image of IT as nerdy / geeky with overweight guys banging on the keyboards.
IMO you need to get rid of the image of STEM being social awkward, male dominated field.
I took some of their girl students to my office and showed them various kinds of IT work and how it can be interesting and surprisingly a huge number of them signed up for IT in their University
http://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girl...
Few of my acquaintances are high school teachers and almost all the girls have an image of IT as nerdy / geeky with overweight guys banging on the keyboards.
IMO you need to get rid of the image of STEM being social awkward, male dominated field.
I took some of their girl students to my office and showed them various kinds of IT work and how it can be interesting and surprisingly a huge number of them signed up for IT in their University