Page, Marianne Elizabeth; Carrell, Scott E.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Why aren't there more women in science? Female college students are currently 37 percent less likely than males to obtain a bachelor's degree in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and comprise only 25 percent of the STEM workforce. This paper begins to shed light on this issue by...