The STEM Gap: Women and Girls in Science, Technology
Women make up only 34% of the workforce in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), and men vastly outnumber women majoring in most STEM fields in college. The gender gaps are particularly high in some of the fastest-growing and highest-paid jobs of the future, like computer science and engineering. Why So Few?
The Untold History of Women in Science and Technology
Listen to women from across the Administration tell the stories of their personal heroes across the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Share them yourself. Add your own. And honor their legacy by committing to encourage a young woman to pursue a career in science.
The gender gap in science and technology, in numbers
2021年7月14日 · Women remain a significant minority in the scientific fields driving the digital revolution, amid a general skills shortage that’s holding back progress. The UNESCO Science Report 2021 found that women are still under-represented in fields such as computing, digital information technology, engineering, mathematics and physics.
The gender gap in science: status and trends, February 2024
Over the past decade (2012 to 2021), 130 countries [ii] reported the share of women researchers in national science, technology and innovation systems. This fact sheet presents global and regional profiles, building on a time series that UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (UIS) has been gathering since 1996.
Women in Science | UNESCO UIS
Women in Science According to UIS data, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. UIS data also show the extent to which these women work in the public, private or academic sectors, as well as their fields of research.
The Gender Gap in STEM | MIT Professional Education
2023年3月13日 · Despite progress in gender equity and growing interest over the last decade in computer science, engineering, math, and statistics among both men and women, the underrepresentation of women in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields continues to persist.
Women in STEM: Science, Tech, Engineering, and Mathematics
2022年8月23日 · Science and science technology: 61.0%; Engineering and engineering technology: 21.7%; Mathematics and computer and information sciences: 31.4%; In 2021, women accounted for less than a quarter (23.5%) of those working in natural and applied sciences and related occupations. 12
Role Of Women In Science And Technology - PWOnlyIAS
2023年8月30日 · Achieving SDGs: STEM is crucial to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 (gender equality) which includes women’s use of enabling technology. Masculine Culture: Women are stereotyped as more delicate, tender and unfit for hard jobs. Paucity of Female Role Models: Not enough female role models to admire and follow.
‘More women and girls in science equals better science’, UN chief ...
2023年2月10日 · Gender bias in science has resulted in drug tests that treat the female body as an aberration, and search algorithms that perpetuate discrimination, but the solution is simple: increase the...
Women in Science and Technology: A Resource Guide - Library …
2019年3月7日 · More and more women enter fields of science and engineering, as well as the history of science and technology, and an increasing number of universities are now working towards attracting more women in science and engineering. Primary schools are also making an extra effort to bring girls into fields of science and engineering from a young age.