This is counter to what the media is telling us.
We hear an incessant cry from progressives, feminists, leftists and gender activists about a “shortage of women in STEM.” Do a Google search for terms like “shortage of women in STEM” or “female STEM shortage” or “gender STEM gap” and you’ll find about tens of millions of results. In a 2009 NY Times interview, former astronaut Sally Ride referred to the “persistent gender gap in STEM fields” as a “national crisis that will be deeply detrimental to America’s global competitiveness.”
And yet according to some data that I recently discovered from several sources, there might not be such a shortage of women in STEM after all, at least overall. In fact, according to several measures, women are actually slightly over-represented in STEM graduate programs and earn a majority of STEM college degrees. A lot depends on how we define “Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)” and that definition is fairly fluid and subject to various interpretations. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics “The definition of STEM can vary, depending on the group using it.”
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