Google Research

Research done through google

Questions Asked to google and the answers:

• Is women in stem expanding?

  • Yes, since 2016, the number of women working in STEM fields has increased by over 216,000. This addition of women has put the total number of women in STEM over the one million mark for the first time. Additionally, since 2015, the numver of women who have graduated from STEM subjects in college has grown every year from 2015 to 2019. The percentage of women in STEM was standing at 26% in 2019

    • https://www.stemwomen.com/women-in-stem-percentages-of-women-in-stem-statistics#:~:text=Women%20in%20STEM%20workforce&text=Since%202016%2C%20the%20number%20of,for%20the%20first%20time%20ever!

• What is the actual percentage comparing women and men in STEM?

  • According to the article,"Gender differences carry over from education to the STEM workforce. While the college-educated STEM workforce had almost reached gender parity in 2019, with a female share of 44%, large gender gaps remain between types of STEM jobs. Although only 29% of the science and engineering (S&E) workforce in 2019 was female, women were 57% of S&E-related workers (e.g. nurse, dental hygienist). The representation of women coincides with the patterns of gender balance in STEM degrees. Women scientists and engineers comprise 48% of biological, agricultural and environmental life scientists, 81% of psychologists, and 64% of social scientists; and much smaller shares of geoscientists (30%), engineers (16%), economists (24%), mathematical scientists (42%), computer scientists (24%), and physical scientists (35%). Even within the S&E-related workforce, women comprise 70% of health-related occupations — such as nurses, pharmacists, and physician assistants — but only 21% of computer and information systems managers."

  • https://econofact.org/are-women-reaching-parity-with-men-in-stem#:~:text=While%20the%20college%2Deducated%20STEM,e.g.%20nurse%2C%20dental%20hygienist).

• How is women in stem changing?

  • In 1970, only 8 percent of women made up the amount of STEM workers in the USA. Then according to a report done in 2019, women made up about 26% of STEM workers. Even though men still dominate the STEM field, women are slowly making their presence more known and having a huge impact on the STEM world.

    • https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/06/women-in-stem-need-more-than-a-law/#:~:text=Since%20the%20law's%20enactment%2C%20women,percent%20of%20the%20STEM%20workforce.