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This is a list of notable organizations for women in science and, more generally; science, technology, engineering, and math. General STEM-oriented groups [ edit ]
Organizations such as Girls Who Code, StemBox, [223] and Stanford's Women in Data Science Initiative aim to encourage women and girls to explore male-dominated STEM fields. Many of these organizations offer summer programs and scholarships to girls interested in STEM fields.
Representing the 7.4 million women working in STEM, AWIS members are professionals and students in a variety of STEM fields. Over 50% of AWIS members have doctorates in their respective fields. [10] AWIS has 49 chapters in the United States, which support local networking and mentorship, as well as outreach to young women considering careers in ...
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.
[21] The organization is open to every gender and background in an effort to support and promote diversity. [22] The Society of Women Engineers awards multiple scholarships each year to women in undergraduate and graduate STEM degree programs. [23] In 2019, SWE disbursed nearly 260 new and renewed scholarships valued at more than $810,000. [24]
In 2017, 33% of students in STEM fields were women. The organization UNESCO has stated that this gender disparity is due to discrimination, biases, social norms and expectations that influence the quality of education women receive and the subjects they study. [1]
Stemettes is a social enterprise which encourages girls and young women aged 5–25 to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths ().Stemettes runs panel events, hackathons, the Student to Stemette mentoring programme supported by Deutsche Bank, Outbox Incubator and an app, OtotheB, an online platform for girls interested in STEM and entrepreneurship.
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.