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America's Leaky Pipeline
Women earn 35% of STEM degrees in the US — but hold only 28% of STEM jobs. Somewhere between campus and career, the pipeline leaks.
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Women make up about 28% of the US STEM workforce — roughly 169 in a crowd of 2,000. That gap has barely budged in 30 years despite massive investment in "pipeline" programs. Research increasingly suggests the problem isn't the pipeline — it's the culture. Women leave STEM careers at twice the rate of men, citing hostile environments rather than lack of ability.
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