Girls and STEM: By the Numbers
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of students are majoring in computer science.
1%
0.3% of those are girls.
Top 4 areas of interest for girls in STEM currently: 1. Healthcare 2. Art/design 3. Entertainment 4. Social sciences
Top 4 areas of career growth and jobs by 2018: 1. CompuHng (71%) 2. Engineering (16%) 3. Phy. Sciences (7%) 4. Life Sciences (4%)
of the current 11%
workforce in the U.S. have a STEM degree.
U.S. Workforce U.S. STEM Workforce
24% STEM workforce in the U.S. are women.
of the current
13% of girls ages 14-‐17
say a STEM career is their first choice.
57% of girls ages 14-‐17
believe they’d have to work harder to be taken seriously
in a STEM career.
57% of students will lose interest
by the Hme they graduate from
high school.
28% of freshmen declare interest in STEM, but…
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References 1. UCLA’s Higher Educa5on Research Ins5tute, 2012 CIRP
Freshman Survey. 2. The Girl Scout Research Ins5tute. 3. STEMConnector and My College Op5ons report. 4. She Geeks Women and Girls in STEM infographic. 5. U.S. Chamber of Commerce Report, via NPR 8/16/13,
“The STEM Gender Gap.” 6. U.S. Department of Commerce, “The State of the
Union’s 21st Century Workforce.”
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