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The Athena SWAN charter was established in 2005 and the first awards were conferred in 2006. The initial charter set out to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) institutions of higher education and research. [3]
The organization UNESCO has stated that this gender disparity is due to discrimination, biases, social norms and expectations that influence the quality of education women receive and the subjects they study. [1] UNESCO also believes that having more women in STEM fields is desirable because it would help bring about sustainable development. [1]
Women in STEM fields earn considerably less than men, even after controlling for a wide set of characteristics such as education and age. On average, men in STEM jobs earn $36.34 per hour while women in STEM jobs earn $31.11 per hour. [82]
The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
Sassler and Meyerhofer studied women’s earning rates against men in computer science jobs between 2009 and 2019, and found that those women made about 86.6 cents on the men’s dollar.
Athena SWAN – a recognition scheme for UK universities working to advance and promote careers of women in science, engineering, and technology; Scholarships for women in science by Brookhaven Women in Science: Renate W. Chasman Scholarship – awarded to a graduate student performing research at Brookhaven National Laboratory [25]
The UKRC (UK Resource Centre) is a UK organisation for the provision of advice, services and policy consultation regarding the under-representation of women in science, engineering, technology and the built environment (SET). [1] It is funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and was launched in 2004. [2]
Cynthia Chapple is an American research chemist and non-profit executive. Chapple is the founder and managing director of Black Girls Do Stem. This program was created with a mission to increase curiosity through deliberate education access and opportunities in science, engineering, and mathematics.