Women represent less than 20% of computer science graduates.
Women make up only 13% of working engineers. Women make up only 29% of math Ph.Ds. Men outnumber women architects by a whopping 4 to 1 ratio. Women represent half of the population, yet they are underrepresented in innovative fields such as space travel, robotics, and self-driving cars.
Today, 71% of all patent applications are exclusively men and only 12% of approved patents have at least one woman. If we aspire to never stop innovating, we need more women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.
Per a major Microsoft study of over 11,000 people, the problem starts in middle school, when girls interest in STEM peaks and drops quickly by the time they reach 17.
The founder of GSA lays out this critical need for Women in STEM in our society in her TED talk.