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Gender Gap: Where are Women in Tech, Science and Math Jobs?

By Dennis McCafferty on 2011-08-17


Are you struggling to strike a gender balance within the ranks of your IT department employment base? You're not alone. There's a scarcity of women pursuing technology careers. In fact, research from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) reveals that the percentage of females working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics -- known collectively as STEM -- lags far behind that of the overall female-to-male workplace ratio. And while women in STEM jobs make more money than their non-STEM female counterparts, they are still paid considerably less than their male colleagues. The findings are based upon on analysis from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey and Current Population Survey.

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24% is the share of STEM jobs that women hold, even though women account for close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy.

33% is how much more STEM-career women earn compared to women in non-STEM fields.

27% of workers in the computer science/math fields are women. In 2000, 30% of computer science/math professionals were women.

$31.11 per hour is what women in STEM jobs earn, compared to $36.34 per hour earned by men with STEM jobs.

2.5 million working women have STEM-related college degrees, compared to the 6.7 million working men with those degrees.

Among women with STEM degrees, 42% majored in computer, math or engineering-related studies, while 57% pursued physical and life sciences.

Only 26% of women with STEM-focused college degrees work in related fields, compared to 40% of men with STEM degrees who do so.

Women who have a STEM degree and work in a related field earn 29% more than the average female worker.

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