Women Power!

Keeping with a the tradition here is some brevity

Q: How do you know that Saturn has been married multiple times?

A: Because she has a lot of rings!

US Women in STEM Statistics

• Between 2007 and 2020, women held 25% of computing-related roles. (Builtin, 2023)

• In the academic year of 2020/21, about 860,760 male and 1.2 million female students earned a Bachelor’s degree in the United States. (Statista, 2023)

• In 2023, the gender gap in STEM remains significant with women making up only 28% of the STEM workforce. (MIT, 2023)

• The number of S&E degrees earned by women between 2011 and 2020 increased by 63% at the associate’s level, 34% at the bachelor’s level, 45% at the master’s degree level, and 18% at the doctorate level. (National Science Foundation, 2023)

• Despite accounting for over half of the college-educated workforce, women in the United States made up only 26% of computer and mathematical scientists, and 16% of engineers in 2019. (National Science Foundation, 2022)

• Women are underrepresented in software engineering, only 15% of software engineers in the U.S. are women. (Forbes, 2022)

• Women remain underrepresented in STEM occupations, two-thirds (65%) of those employed in STEM occupations were men and about one-third (35%) were women. (National Science Foundation, 2022)

• Between 2011 and 2021, the number of women in the STEM workforce increased 31%, from 9.4 million to 12.3 million. (National Science Foundation, 2022)

• Women earned a majority of all bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees awarded to U.S. citizens and permanent residents in the 2017-2018 school year. They accounted for 53% of degrees in STEM fields at the bachelor’s level and 48% at the research doctoral level. (Pew Research Center, 2021)

• Nearly two-thirds (65%) of women working in STEM jobs in 2021 had at least a bachelor’s degree education, compared with less than half (43%) of men in STEM jobs. (National Science Foundation, 2021)

• The percentage of women who hold the CIO or CTO role rose from 16% last year to 18% this year. (Korn Ferry, 2019)

• 63% of middle school girls who know women in STEM enjoyed STEM related subjects. (Microsoft, 2018)

• Women receive a premium for working in STEM, 105% higher (approximately 2x) the earnings of women in non-STEM. (Rand, 2018)

• In 2018, women in computer, engineering, and science occupations were paid an estimated 80.7% of men’s annual median earnings. (Commerce.gov, 2018)

• Women comprise three-quarters of health care practitioners and technicians, the largest occupational cluster classified as STEM in this analysis, with 9.0 million workers – 6.7 million of whom are women. (Pew Research Center, 2018)

• Women remain underrepresented in engineering (14%), computer (25%) and physical science (39%) occupations. (Pew Research Center, 2018)