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Showing posts with label STEM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label STEM. Show all posts
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
The Rise Of Women In Tech
From http://www.mbaonline.com/the-rise-of-women-in-tech/:
It’s time for the old adage that women neither like nor do well in math and science be put to rest …
Women are increasingly involved in the tech field, both as consumers and as practitioners, which shouldn’t come as a surprise since over half of social media users are women and the average social gamer is a woman in her 40s.
This trend is also reflected in education. Of the computer science majors graduating in 2013 from Harvard, women make up 41%. And although only 25% of science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) jobs are currently held by women, the numbers are beginning to shift. Between January of 2011 and 2012, the number of women in the IT field jumped by more than 28%.
The benefits for women who enter tech are hard to deny. They experience smaller wage gaps due to gender than women in other industries. But the relationship between women and tech companies isn’t one-sided – the companies get some nice perks, too. Companies whose boards of directors contain 3 or more female members had higher returns on sales, returns on investments and returns on equity.
The infographic below delves deeper into how the phenomenon of women in tech is on the rise.
Click here to see the graphic!
It’s time for the old adage that women neither like nor do well in math and science be put to rest …
Women are increasingly involved in the tech field, both as consumers and as practitioners, which shouldn’t come as a surprise since over half of social media users are women and the average social gamer is a woman in her 40s.
This trend is also reflected in education. Of the computer science majors graduating in 2013 from Harvard, women make up 41%. And although only 25% of science, tech, engineering and math (STEM) jobs are currently held by women, the numbers are beginning to shift. Between January of 2011 and 2012, the number of women in the IT field jumped by more than 28%.
The benefits for women who enter tech are hard to deny. They experience smaller wage gaps due to gender than women in other industries. But the relationship between women and tech companies isn’t one-sided – the companies get some nice perks, too. Companies whose boards of directors contain 3 or more female members had higher returns on sales, returns on investments and returns on equity.
The infographic below delves deeper into how the phenomenon of women in tech is on the rise.
Click here to see the graphic!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Recent report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
Anyone interested in teaching should read the recent report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast), which focuses on the need to retain and prepare one million additional college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Recommendation 1 in that report is to “catalyze widespread adoption of empirically validated teaching practices” with the goal of improving the first two years of STEM education and improving retention of majors. (One of the most common reasons cited by students who leave STEM majors is poor teaching by STEM faculty.)
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