YouScience, an online career development and training platform based in American Fork, has released its annual “2024 Female Students and STEM Report,” in collaboration with Ford Next Generation Learning, an initiative working to reshape high school education to better align with the demands of the modern workforce. The report highlights critical insights into career exposure gaps among female students across the nation for a variety of in-demand jobs as well as offers actionable solutions to bridge these gaps in the STEM field careers.
The career exposure gap identifies the mismatch between students’ abilities and interests, revealing overlooked career options. This analysis is based on anonymous data from 233,000 female middle and high school students in the United States, collected in 2023.
Women play a crucial role in filling high-paying, in-demand STEM careers, the report concludes. Yet, they account for just Please log in to see the rest of this story.
