WYOMING – The tech industry may be booming, but gender disparities within the world of tech still exist. Wyoming has already been identified as a state where a wage gap exists between working men and women, but what about a STEM gap?
The STEM gap is defined as the discrepancy between men and women working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. To understand how big the gender gap in STEM truly is, the Typing.com team analyzed data from the 2015-17 US Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, looking at STEM gaps by degree, occupation, and location.
Their findings were very encouraging for the Equality State. Wyoming still has a ways to go when it comes to a more equal hiring between men and women with Bachelor’s degrees in STEM fields, but the state also made more progress since 2015 toward doing so than any other state.
Here’s where Wyoming stands:
- Wyoming ranks among the states with the smallest percentage gap (39.2%) between men and women working in STEM fields. Maryland has the smallest gap at 38%
- With an 18.2% decrease since 2015, Wyoming made the most progress in the nation towards narrowing the gender STEM gap in the workforce
- Wyoming ranks among the states with the largest percentage gap (20.6%) between men and women with Bachelor’s degrees in STEM fields. New Mexico has the largest gap at 22.5%
