80% of future jobs require a STEM education

 

Women in the United States made up less than one-quarter (24%) of those employed in STEM occupations in 2015

 

Female scientists and engineers are concentrated in different occupations than are men, with relatively high shares of women in the social sciences (60%) and biological, agricultural, and environmental-life sciences (48%) and relatively low shares in engineering (15%) and computer and mathematical sciences (26%).

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