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Gender gaps in STEM college majors emerge in high school

from Cornell Chronicle

Gender gaps in STEM college majors emerge in high school Cornell Chronicle Although studies have shown that women are more likely than men to enter and complete college in U.S. higher education, women are less likely to earn degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields. In new research, Kim Weeden, the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Professor of the Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences, traces the discrepancy in college majors back to gender differences that emerge early in high school. READ MORE

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