STEM Jobs See Uneven Progress in Increasing Gender, Racial and Ethnic Diversity
The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
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The higher education pipeline suggests a long path is ahead for increasing diversity, especially in fields like computing and engineering.
Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in STEM jobs compared with their share of the U.S. workforce.
College graduates without a college-educated parent have lower incomes and less wealth, on average, than those with a parent who has a bachelor’s or higher degree.
Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.
The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.
An influx of students from low-income families and students of color at U.S. colleges and universities has almost exclusively fueled the growth in the overall number of undergraduates.
Today’s 6- to 21-year-olds are already America’s most racially and ethnically diverse generation – and more of them are heading to college than previous generations.
The number of U.S. households renting their home increased significantly between 2006 and 2016, as did the share.
As Obama’s time in office nears its end, the U.S. remains short of his goal to produce more college graduates by 2020.
Helped by the economic recovery, the share not working or enrolled in school dropped to a historic low of 16% by 2014, a Pew Research Center analysis found.
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