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  #1 Bonnie Sutton on 05 Aug 11

   

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  Women in STEM: An Opportunity and An Imperative
  
  Submitted on August 3, 2011 - 11:30am
  Categories: Education Jobs Mark Doms STEM Economics and Statistics Administration
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  Today Commerce's Economic and Statistics Administration released the second in a series of reports on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This report, entitledWomen in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation(PDF), looked at women and STEM. The results offer an opportunity and an imperative for women and America. The results showed that women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity to expand STEM employment in the United States, even as there is wide agreement that the nation must do more to improve its competitiveness.
  
  Other key findings are:
  
  Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs. This has been the case throughout the past decade, even as college-educated women have increased their share of the overall workforce.
  Women with STEM jobs earned 33 percent more than comparable women in non-STEM jobs-considerably higher than the STEM premium for men. As a result, the gender wage gap is smaller in STEM jobs than in non-STEM jobs.
  Women hold a disproportionately low share of STEM undergraduate degrees, particularly in engineering.
  Women with a STEM degree are less likely than their male counterparts to work in a STEM occupation; they are more likely to work in education or healthcare
  For more information on this topic, read Chief Economist Mark Doms's blog post about the report and ESA's first report on STEM: Good Jobs Now and For the Future.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a href="http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportunity-and-imperative" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.commerce.gov/blog/2011/08/03/women-stem-opportunity-and-imperative</a> <br /> <br /> Women in STEM: An Opportunity and An Imperative <br /> <br /> Submitted on August 3, 2011 - 11:30am <br /> Categories: Education Jobs Mark Doms STEM Economics and Statistics Administration <br /> Printer-friendly version <br /> <br /> Today Commerce's Economic and Statistics Administration released the second in a series of reports on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This report, entitledWomen in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation(PDF), looked at women and STEM. The results offer an opportunity and an imperative for women and America. The results showed that women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity to expand STEM employment in the United States, even as there is wide agreement that the nation must do more to improve its competitiveness. <br /> <br /> Other key findings are: <br /> <br /> Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs. This has been the case throughout the past decade, even as college-educated women have increased their share of the overall workforce. <br /> Women with STEM jobs earned 33 percent more than comparable women in non-STEM jobs-considerably higher than the STEM premium for men. As a result, the gender wage gap is smaller in STEM jobs than in non-STEM jobs. <br /> Women hold a disproportionately low share of STEM undergraduate degrees, particularly in engineering. <br /> Women with a STEM degree are less likely than their male counterparts to work in a STEM occupation; they are more likely to work in education or healthcare <br /> For more information on this topic, read Chief Economist Mark Doms's blog post about the report and ESA's first report on STEM: Good Jobs Now and For the Future.</div>

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