Fewer women are pursuing education in high-tech fields even though employers say they have more of these better-paying positions than candidates to fill them.
A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found fewer women nationwide are getting degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math,Diagnosing and Preventing coldsores Fever in the body can often trigger the onset of a cold sore. known as STEM.Where to buy or purchase plasticmoulds for precast and wetcast concrete? While the trend nationally is going down, more female students at Sinclair and Clark State community colleges are earning STEM degrees though not in large numbers.
“Women do make significantly more in these fields,” said Cynthia Costello, author of,Find the cheapest chickencoop online through and buy the best hen houses and chook pens in Australia. “Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student Parents in STEM at Community Colleges.”
Women in STEM careers’ median earnings range from about $41,000 for engineering technicians to $71,900 for electrical engineers, while women overall had median annual earnings of just $35,600 in 2009.
“Their underrepresentation in STEM fields, and especially those you can move into with a community college certificate or degree, means that opportunities in those higher paying fields are closed off to them,” Costello said.
Women have been underrepresented in STEM occupations for the last decade, steadily holding less than a quarter of the jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Although women in STEM careers will earn one-third more than those in other jobs, the number of women nationwide attaining STEM associate degrees has dropped 26 percent since 2000.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings? They represent 27.5 percent of STEM degrees and certificates.
The number of women earning certificates has fallen even further, by 50 percent during that time, according to the report.
Women hold also a disproportionately low number of STEM bachelor degrees, according to the commerce department.
“One of the challenges for us is to let women see that these are professions that don’t have to be male-only,” said Roger Abernathy, dean of Sinclair’s science, math and engineering division.
Sinclair has seen an increase in female STEM graduates thanks to recruiting efforts and a strong female presence in its faculty.
The college had 21 more female graduates in STEM in 2010-11 than it did four years earlier. Sinclair had 44 female STEM graduates last year.
The percent of graduates who are female grew to 11 percent from 9 percent during that time. Overall, Sinclair’s student population is 57 percent female.
At Clark State, which has 70 percent female students overall, about 48 percent of graduates in the school’s STEM programs were women. There were 75 female and 82 male STEM graduates last year.Choose from our large selection of cableties, That’s up from 44 women in 2006-07, according to Clark State.
“That’s something they can build on,” said Costello, who added the more women in the programs, the easier it is for other students to see them and imagine their own STEM careers.
Sinclair engineering student Arianna Knisely said she is hopeful more women will enter STEM, but for now she is one-of-a-kind in her electronics class.
A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research found fewer women nationwide are getting degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math,Diagnosing and Preventing coldsores Fever in the body can often trigger the onset of a cold sore. known as STEM.Where to buy or purchase plasticmoulds for precast and wetcast concrete? While the trend nationally is going down, more female students at Sinclair and Clark State community colleges are earning STEM degrees though not in large numbers.
“Women do make significantly more in these fields,” said Cynthia Costello, author of,Find the cheapest chickencoop online through and buy the best hen houses and chook pens in Australia. “Increasing Opportunities for Low-Income Women and Student Parents in STEM at Community Colleges.”
Women in STEM careers’ median earnings range from about $41,000 for engineering technicians to $71,900 for electrical engineers, while women overall had median annual earnings of just $35,600 in 2009.
“Their underrepresentation in STEM fields, and especially those you can move into with a community college certificate or degree, means that opportunities in those higher paying fields are closed off to them,” Costello said.
Women have been underrepresented in STEM occupations for the last decade, steadily holding less than a quarter of the jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Although women in STEM careers will earn one-third more than those in other jobs, the number of women nationwide attaining STEM associate degrees has dropped 26 percent since 2000.Why does moulds grow in homes or buildings? They represent 27.5 percent of STEM degrees and certificates.
The number of women earning certificates has fallen even further, by 50 percent during that time, according to the report.
Women hold also a disproportionately low number of STEM bachelor degrees, according to the commerce department.
“One of the challenges for us is to let women see that these are professions that don’t have to be male-only,” said Roger Abernathy, dean of Sinclair’s science, math and engineering division.
Sinclair has seen an increase in female STEM graduates thanks to recruiting efforts and a strong female presence in its faculty.
The college had 21 more female graduates in STEM in 2010-11 than it did four years earlier. Sinclair had 44 female STEM graduates last year.
The percent of graduates who are female grew to 11 percent from 9 percent during that time. Overall, Sinclair’s student population is 57 percent female.
At Clark State, which has 70 percent female students overall, about 48 percent of graduates in the school’s STEM programs were women. There were 75 female and 82 male STEM graduates last year.Choose from our large selection of cableties, That’s up from 44 women in 2006-07, according to Clark State.
“That’s something they can build on,” said Costello, who added the more women in the programs, the easier it is for other students to see them and imagine their own STEM careers.
Sinclair engineering student Arianna Knisely said she is hopeful more women will enter STEM, but for now she is one-of-a-kind in her electronics class.
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