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Lists of women in STEM fields — researchers, professionals, academics, and students in the STEM fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Female students represent 35% of all students enrolled in STEM-related fields of study at this level globally. Differences are also observed by disciplines, with female enrollment lowest in engineering, manufacturing and construction, natural science, mathematics and statistics and ICT fields.
In STEM jobs, female wages are approximately 84% of men's, compared to 71% in non-STEM jobs. [3] [7] [27] Moreover, it has also been stated that traditionally stereotypical images of engineering as "dirty", "rugged", or "manly" jobs are gradually being eroded—opening employment opportunities for prospective women nationwide. [28] [30] [31]
The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
Women constitute 47% of the U.S. workforce and perform 24% of STEM-related jobs. [123] In the UK women perform 13% of STEM-related jobs (2014). [124] In the U.S. women with STEM degrees are more likely to work in education or healthcare rather than STEM fields compared with their male counterparts.
In 2021, North Carolina had 300,000 STEM jobs, yet women accounted for only 28% of them. That’s according to the North Carolina Department of Commerce, which spoke at the House Select Committee ...
Sassler and Meyerhofer studied women’s earning rates against men in computer science jobs between 2009 and 2019, and found that those women made about 86.6 cents on the men’s dollar.
According to PISA 2015 results, 4.8% of boys and 0.4% of girls expect an ICT career. [40]Studies suggest that many factors contribute to the attitudes towards the achievement of young men in mathematics and science, including encouragement from parents, interactions with mathematics and science teachers, curriculum content, hands-on laboratory experiences, high school achievement in ...