STEM Jobs See Uneven Progress in Increasing Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 19, 2024
Higher education pipeline suggests long path ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering
Raychel Lewis, a cell culture technician, sets up equipment to test COVID-19 samples from recovered patients at a lab in New York City. (Misha Friedman/Getty Images)
For this report, we analyzed federal government data to look at gender, racial and ethnic diversity among those employed in and earning degrees in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Analysis of the STEM workforce is based solely on occupation, using data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 1990 and 2000 U.S . . .
