IMPACT
Gender Disparities in Stem
Document Type
Presentation
Type
Information Motivating Public Activism (IMPACT)
UN Sustainable Development Goal
UNSDG #5: Gender Equality
Start Date
28-4-2021 10:35 AM
End Date
28-4-2021 10:55 AM
Abstract
It is well known that a gender pay gap exists in many fields and that women are underrepresented in STEM and many other fields. In STEM fields especially, this is the result of both direct and indirect gender biases. For instance, differing educational opportunities may lead to differences in earnings later in a career, and it has been suggested that poor representation and gender bias within the workforce have contributed to further decreasing women’s representation in developer roles. We use data collected from a survey of 64,461 software developers and programmers from around the world to investigate the ways gender influences the pay and representation of women in the STEM field of programming directly and indirectly, through factors such as experience and developer role.
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Gender Disparities in Stem
It is well known that a gender pay gap exists in many fields and that women are underrepresented in STEM and many other fields. In STEM fields especially, this is the result of both direct and indirect gender biases. For instance, differing educational opportunities may lead to differences in earnings later in a career, and it has been suggested that poor representation and gender bias within the workforce have contributed to further decreasing women’s representation in developer roles. We use data collected from a survey of 64,461 software developers and programmers from around the world to investigate the ways gender influences the pay and representation of women in the STEM field of programming directly and indirectly, through factors such as experience and developer role.