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We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England were up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism. The main perpetrators of this sexism were not university staff, however, but were men STEM degree students.

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[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago
[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That seems to say that there is a slight over-representation of women in STEM (degrees earned) overall but only because of a single subject/job-cluster, "health-related", with a slight to very large under-representation in all others. ~~No "predominant" anywhere.~~ (well maybe health-related)

[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yep, pretty much. Slightly more women in stem these days and rising.

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Slightly to much less in traditional stem, and rising in some subjects/clusters, decreasing in some. I get that you have a hard time understanding that I pointed out that what you said was wrong, but you should admit to it too, instead of just posting another comment that is misleading.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
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[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

44% is workforce stem. This article deals with university stats.

The relevant data is:

In STEM fields, the pipeline is leakiest in life science, psychology and social science fields, which are female-dominated at the undergraduate level — the female share of degree recipients in these fields was 58% at the doctoral level compared with 66% at the bachelor’s level in 2017. In contrast, the four fields with the lowest female shares among bachelor’s degrees recipients — geoscience, engineering, economics, and computer science — have higher female representation among PhD recipients (see here).

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