More women are studying science, tech. But then the problems start
More women than ever are enrolling in science and technology courses at university and they are taking the lion’s share of new jobs in that sector, but once in the workforce they struggle with punishingly wide gender pay gaps and low levels of seniority.
The federal government’s annual scorecard in how women are progressing in education and jobs in the science, technology, engineering and maths fields has found there was a 24 per cent increase in women enrolling in STEM courses at university between 2015 and 2020, but 13 per cent who started switched to another course.
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