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STEPS walks girls towards packaging, technical fields

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While our salary and job satisfaction survey shows gender inequality in terms of pay and positions of authority, a new program may eventually help even things out.

The Summer Technology & Engineering Preview at the University of Wisconsin-Stout (STEPS) is a week-long packaging lab session for girls. The idea behind STEPS is to encourage girls to choose technical fields by letting them discover what it's like to be packaging engineers.

This summer, the university held four sessions, with a total of 160 girls participating in technically oriented activities including packaging, plastics processing and robotics.

Stout's packaging campaign coordinator Shirley Hoener tells Packaging World, "This was the first year STEPS was held, and it was extremely well received by everyone involved. We had about 550 applications for the program." And that's without much advance publicity. She says initial plans call for STEPS to run for at least three summers.

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