Opinion: 541 report cards show that women are still underrepresented in STEM fields
Achieving gender equity in STEM is possible. It will take strong leadership and creative follow through. But we all deserve what the best minds can bring to bear on the…
by Whitney H. Beeler and Reshma Jagsi and Susan L. Solomon
Sep 05, 2019
3 minutes
Despite decades of efforts to increase the number of women working in science, technology, engineering, and medicine (STEM), these fields still aren’t tapping into all of the brainpower available to them. That’s the take-home message from more than 500 “report cards” from academic and scientific institutions.
In 2014, one of us (SLS) launched the by convening a working group of leading women — and men — and asking them to identify proven, easy-to-implement strategies to decrease that emerged from the working group was the institutional to evaluate institutions’ commitment to promoting gender equality.
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