I went to the University of Surrey last week for a science careers evening, and as I was chatting to some students afterwards, one of them asked a fascinating question. “We’re always hearing that the ...
On balance: STEM shortages and surveys. On a personal level, both of us know people, on both sides of the Atlantic, who have struggled to move their careers forward despite holding degrees in STEM ...
While South Africa has made significant strides in welcoming women into the Stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fold — evidenced by more representative classrooms and robust ...
Recent statistics seem to point to an overabundance of STEM graduates, and yet there is negative unemployment in some tech careers. Why the discrepancy between supply and demand? In the technology ...
On today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, only a few nations have reached parity in tertiary STEM education. Numbers from a UNESCO database show that a majority of countries, ...
A 2018 study describing a “gender equality paradox,” by which nations with greater gender equity had fewer women earning degrees in science, tech, engineering and math, is the subject of a recent ...