INSIGHT
equal gender rights , in Saudi for instance women still only account for 13 % of the total workforce . Nonetheless , in these patriarchal nations where it ’ s impossible for women to feel empowered , this is how they are carving out opportunities for themselves .
THE GREAT BIAS By comparison the UK only has 16 % of female STEM students and the US has 18 %. The non-profit organisation Girls Who Code has found that in US middle schools 74 % of girls show an interest in STEM , yet when choosing degrees as few as 0.4 % select it . It ’ s such a typical occurrence it ’ s been given a name - the salubrioussounding “ leaky pipeline .”
This continually happens because there ’ s a deeply ingrained bias upsetting pretty much every industry and society around the world . This
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