What’s Wrong with Gender Gap in STEM Fields? Now close eyes and picture an engineer or a scientist. How many people have a male in the picture and how many people have a female? U.S. Department of Commerce (2011) reported the data that “Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs.” The gender gap in STEM fields is a long-existing problem and obviously, this gap won 't disappear in a short time. Recently, politicians and educators are appealing to women to study and work in science to close this gap. What is wrong with this gender gap? Most women do not choose to work in STEM fields, but actually they will all be affected adversely by this persistent gender gap not only to
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However, what if they divorce and have a kid to be fed? In 2014, U.S. Census Bureau analyzed the data that “out of about 12 million single parent families in 2014, more than 80% were headed by single mothers.” Everyone experienced being a child must know how hard and how expensive it is to raise up a kid. Millions of women are struggled now to feed kids by their own and they earn less money than men because most of them are not working in STEM fields. Therefore, the gender gap makes many single mothers have financial problems. The indirect victims are the next generation of America not only on education level but also on nutrition level because their moms cannot afford the better education opportunities and have trouble buying healthier …show more content…
In 2013, the National Geographic (2014) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that women only need half doses of the sleeping pill Ambien because the ingredient of the drug lasts longer in women’s bodies. Overdosing the Zolpidem, the ingredient of Ambien, can be fatal. Ambien produced this drug since the 1990s, but the proper dosage for women was found just 2 years from now. The lack of women in physiology leads to a dangerous consequence to women’ health. The number of drugs is enormous and people still don’t how many drugs that the proper dosage for women hasn’t discovered
However, what if they divorce and have a kid to be fed? In 2014, U.S. Census Bureau analyzed the data that “out of about 12 million single parent families in 2014, more than 80% were headed by single mothers.” Everyone experienced being a child must know how hard and how expensive it is to raise up a kid. Millions of women are struggled now to feed kids by their own and they earn less money than men because most of them are not working in STEM fields. Therefore, the gender gap makes many single mothers have financial problems. The indirect victims are the next generation of America not only on education level but also on nutrition level because their moms cannot afford the better education opportunities and have trouble buying healthier …show more content…
In 2013, the National Geographic (2014) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found that women only need half doses of the sleeping pill Ambien because the ingredient of the drug lasts longer in women’s bodies. Overdosing the Zolpidem, the ingredient of Ambien, can be fatal. Ambien produced this drug since the 1990s, but the proper dosage for women was found just 2 years from now. The lack of women in physiology leads to a dangerous consequence to women’ health. The number of drugs is enormous and people still don’t how many drugs that the proper dosage for women hasn’t discovered