
STEM Fields are for Girls Too
74% of young girls express interest in studying in STEM fields[1] yet, in 2011, women accounted for only 39% of university graduates with a STEM degree.[2] What happened along the way? In 2014, Google released a study where they found that women unassociated with computer science described it as "boring", and "difficult".[3] This seems strange considering the fact that women are the lead adopters of technology![4] Do young girls really lose interest in technology? Or, do we