Factoid
Mixed News for K-12 STEM
Differences between girls and boys are negligible in K-12 math and science achievement and coursetaking until they begin taking the most advanced AP courses and high school computer science and engineering courses, according to a National Science Foundation report of 2016 science and engineering indicators.

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science
13% women
Nobel Prize in Medicine
10% women
ACS Priestley Medal
12% women
Fields Medal
5% women
First Woman 2014

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In The News
Getting More Females Into Engineering
The United Kingdom--like the United States--struggles with women being underrepresented in the engineering field (a 2023 report found only 18% of individuals seeking engineering and technology undergraduate degrees in the UK were women). Learn what one male and two female chemical engineers--at different stages of their careers--think needs to be done to close the engineering gender gap.» Link to the original article

Women Are Underrepresented as Recipients of Many Prestigious Awards

National Medal of Science

Nobel Prize in Medicine

ACS Priestley Medal

Fields Medal

Getting More Females Into Engineering