How to close the STEM gender gap

Why is there a persistent gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects? Despite their growing importance for many future jobs, women make up only about a third of STEM graduates, with numbers dropping to as low as 20% in some OECD countries. This disparity is alarming to many policymakers, especially considering the lucrative and impactful careers STEM fields offer. In this episode of Top Class, Beatrice Boots, Director of the Dutch STEM Platform PTvT and Chair of the EU STEM Coalition, and Priscilla Wanjiku Gatonye, Program Officer for Inclusion and Youth at UNESCO’s International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, tell OECD Editor Duncan Crawford that increasing female participation in STEM subjects should be a priority.

You can listen to How to close the STEM gender gap online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

How to close the STEM gender gap is an episode from OECD Education & Skills TopClass Podcast by OECD TopClass Podcast.

This episode is 00:31:27 long.

This episode was published on Oct 23, 2024.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from OECD Education & Skills TopClass Podcast when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.