What's So Special about STEM? A Comparison of Women's Retention in STEM and Professional Occupations.
We follow female college graduates in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and compare the trajectories of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related occupations to other professional occupations. Results show that women in STEM occupations are significantly...
| Published in: | Social Forces Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 723 - 757 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2013
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