SiliconBeat – MICHELLE QUINN
“If you listen to politicians and tech leaders, the country is in dire need of more people trained in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called “STEM” fields. Students appear to be responding somewhat to this message, according to a new study from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Twenty-six percent of all bachelor’s earned by men and 12 percent earned by women were in hard sciences in 2014, up from 24 percent and 11 percent respectively in 2004…But when it came to one specific degree — computer science bachelors — women lost ground. In 2014, 18 percent of all bachelor’s degrees awarded to women were in computer science, down from 23 percent in 2004…”(more)