Despite gains by women and people of colour, men continue to occupy almost three-quarters of all science and engineering positions in the nation, and close to two-thirds are occupied by those who identify as white.
A report from the US National Science Foundation finds that the majority of science and engineering jobs are held by white men.
White men dominate science and engineering positions in the nation, the report finds; nearly three-quarters of people in these roles identify as male. Almost two-thirds identify as white. Just one-fifth of the science and engineering workforce identifies as Asian, 8% as Hispanic or Latino, 8% as African American and 0.4% as American Indian or Alaskan Native. Although people with at least one disability represent about one-quarter of the US population, they accounted for only 3% of those in science and engineering positions. The proportion of these workers in the general STEM workforce has remained unchanged in the past decade.
NSF representatives say that the agency is integrating questions about the LGBT+ community into its surveys, adding that it hopes to publish its analysis of the data in a few years.Barthelemy, R. S., Hughes, B. E., Swirtz, M., Mikota, M. & Atherton, T. J.
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