Technology | 2010.03.22
U.S. Women and Minority Scientists Discouraged from Pursuing STEM Careers, National Survey Shows
PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Significant numbers of today’s women and underrepresented minority chemists and chemical engineers (40 percent) say they were discouraged from pursuing a STEM career (science, technology, engineering or mathematics) at some point in their lives, according to a new Bayer Corporation survey. U.S. colleges are cited by them as the leading place in the American education system where discouragement happens (60 percent) and college professors as the individuals most
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