Industry Fact Sheet: Women in Transportation

 There’s a dearth of qualified people with expertise in STEM disciplines.  By 2018, there will be 1.4 million computing job openings in the United States, but only 29% of those jobs will be filled by U.S. graduates.  40 states produce fewer computing graduates than needed to fill projected openings in their states.  The number of girls studying computing has declined 13 percent in the past 10 years.  Women and information technology by the numbers: http://www.ncwit.org/pdf/BytheNumbers09.pdf  Women only make up 6% of today's pilots.  Women are underrepresented in the workforce in technology areas—there are more than 60 million women in the labor force today, yet women make up only 8% of engineers, 18% of engineering technicians, and 30% of natural scientists.  People with an associate's degree in a STEM field earn more than those with a bachelor's degree in education or liberal arts, according to data released Feb. 23, 2012, by the United States Census Bureau: An adult with an associate's degree in engineering earned an average of $4,800 monthly in 2009; someone with a bachelor's degree in education earned an average of $3,800.  Men vastly outnumber women in STEM fields. Nearly 90 percent of all engineering degrees are owned by men. In the physical sciences, math, and computer science, the difference is less pronounced, but men still outnumber women about 3 to 1.