Where Dem Girls At: The Disproportionate Number of Men compared to Women in STEM Majors

Although the total number of university students is increasing, women are almost invisible in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and are often called STEM. (Sheehy) This serious women's alienation is due to the role model, the stereotype, and the lack of misunderstanding of these occupations. One of the main reasons for lack of women is that there is no female role model. They will remember when people think about famous scientists Einstein, Newton, Darwin, Virna.

One factor in the number of unbalanced women and men in STEM is insult to interest in advanced concepts. Indeed, many girls are attracted by this interest as they grow up, and the same may not apply to men of the same age. For many young girls, this treatment is preventing them from seeing future opportunities in the STEM occupation. Especially in the United States, gender inequality of STEM labor force is widespread. According to research published by the American Psychological Association, it is pointed out that gender disparity in mathematics is small in countries with higher gender equality levels. According to the latest report of the Ministry of Labor of 2010, 47% of the workforce in the United States is made up of women, ignoring certain industries. This has decreased from 60% 10 years ago.

Please select your research field. In areas where traditional men dominate, women are increasing more than ever. For example, compared to 1% in 1970, 17% of the engineering sector workers are women. However, women are still concentrating in areas that are biased and have the lowest income. For example, 76% of educated workers are women today, in 1970 this proportion is 75%, which is a professional choice in research 6. Even if they study high income fields, women are more likely to choose the least profitable occupation in these fields than men. For example, 32% of the Department of Environmental Engineering, the woman of the engineering department with the lowest salary is a woman, but the petroleum engineer, the major in the engineering major with the most salary, women is 17%.