There are lots of scholarships and programs that are created by and for women in STEM. A good example would be initiatives like Girls Who Code and Black Girls CODE, which help women break out in such a male-dominated STEM field, giving them necessary resources and skills to find a career in coding. Another great […]

Women are much more prominent in a few STEM fields than others. For example, biological science, at least in the US, has more women in it than men. Reports indicate that women hold 53% of biological science college degrees in 2018. Accounting for all STEM fields, however, only  26% of the workforce are represented by […]

For many reasons, mainly because of the glass ceiling and bias, women, despite having completed a bachelor’s degree, often leave their fields or never enter them in the first place. According to reports, 40% of women leave engineering to pursue another career, which is significantly higher than their male counterparts. This statistic is seen in […]

Unfortunately, yes. Women in all fields of work, especially STEM, are paid less than their male counterparts even in the same job roles. For instance, in the United States, men in STEM jobs earn an average of $36.34 per hour, while women earn $31.11 per hour. This disparity persists even when accounting for factors like […]