Statistics About Girls, Non-Traditional Careers, and STEM

Job Market

Only 10% of all civil engineers, 8% of all electrical and electronics engineers, and 10% of all aerospace engineers are female (U.S. Department of Labor, 2009).

Women account for 53% of all biological scientists, 31% of all physicians and surgeons, 33% of all chemists and material scientists, and 29% of all environmental scientists and geoscientists (U.S. Department of Labor, 2009).

Women constitute 46.5% of the workforce in the U.S., but hold just 25% of mathematical and computer science jobs and 11% of engineering jobs. Of the women in engineering professions, only 7% are Hispanic and 6% are African American (U.S. Department of Labor, 2008; National Science Foundation, 2007).

In 2008, women held 57 percent of professional occupations in the U.S., but only 25 percent of professional information technology-related occupations were held by women (NCWIT, 2010).