Women in STEM Series

For decades, we’ve known about the problem; now the solutions seem to be coming into effect. In the United States, women represented 27% of STEM jobs in 2019, up from 8% in 1970. The number of women taking up college degrees in STEM is rising. Still, progress is disproportionately slow in fields like Physics. Closer to home, women researchers in Asia often hold less stable positions than men and girls in Singapore are less willing to pursue STEM careers than boys.

As a project that seeks to increase access to advanced Mathematics and Physics, Project Pascal is a staunch champion of gender parity in these fields. In this series, we held conversations with various women in Mathematics and Physics, from Junior College graduates to established researchers. The contents of these conversations shed light on the situation from an intimate perspective and offer valuable insight.