Hiring More Woman In Stem

February holds one of the most important holidays of the month…and no, we don’t mean  Valentine’s Day. Each February, we celebrate International Day of Women and Girls in Science, where women worldwide are empowered and celebrated, specifically in the field of STEM. If you didn’t know about this day of recognition, below, SSi People shares important information about hiring women in STEM.

Let’s Talk Numbers! 

Women in STEM Courses 

In order to get an idea of what it looks like to be a woman in STEM, let’s take a look at where the trajectory usually starts: education.

According to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IEDPS), women represented 45% of students majoring in STEM in 2020, up from 40% in 2010 to 34% in 1994. However, it’s also vital to look not only at the number of women in these courses but also at the ones who graduate and progress from these classes or programs.

 FACTS

• The number of female STEM graduates in the 2020-21 school year was 276,429, and the male graduate count was 514,323.

• In 2021, women comprised just 15% of engineering professionals and 25% of computing workers.

• According to the 2023 Global Gender Gap Report, women constitute only 29.2% of the STEM workforce in 146 nations.

• Society of Women Engineers notes that “life science occupations, such as biological sciences, has reached parity,” showing a 55% representation, but fields in architecture and engineering and computer and math roles are increasing much more slowly at 16.7% and 26.9%, respectively.