R Al Tamime, I Weber - PeerJ Computer Science, 2022 - peerj.com

Using social media advertisement data to monitor the gender gap in STEM: opportunities and challenges.

STEM and gender

Al, Weber

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Excerpt

Boosting the number of women and girls entering careers involving STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is crucial to achieving gender equality, one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Girls and women tend to gravitate away from STEM fields at multiple stages from childhood through mid-career. The leaky pipeline is a metaphor often used to describe the loss of women in STEM and arguably other fields before reaching senior roles. Do interests expressed on social media mirror the leaky pipeline …