Globally, Progress Stalls for Women in STEM
From Society of Women Engineers Magazine:
UNESCO’s “Changing the Equation: Securing STEM Futures for Women,” a policy brief for the G20 Women’s Empowerment Working Group published in 2024, shares some concerning numbers related to women’s and girls’ access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, within the G20, or Group of 20, countries. The G20 is a coalition of developed and developing nations that meets annually to find solutions to global economic, political, and social issues.¹
The brief finds that women hold just 22% of STEM jobs in G20 countries, and women and girls form only a third or less of the students, employees, and innovators in STEM fields. Additionally, women working in STEM are more likely to be targets of gender-based violence and sexism than women in other fields, the study finds. Virtually no progress has been made in these areas in the past two decades, according to the brief.