UT Conference to Look at How Women in STEM Can Thrive in Industry, Academia
UT Conference to Look at How Women in STEM Can Thrive in Industry, Academia
Women comprise less than a quarter of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) workforce in the United States, and they are most likely to leave those jobs compared to men. The story is not much different on the nation’s college campuses, where more than half of employees who have STEM PhDs work in nonacademic positions, according to a recent study by the American Institutes for Research.
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 10:00 to Friday, April 11, 2014 - 18:00
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Submitted 10 years 2 months ago by Henrietta Dale.