Project 1 - Analyzing the Education trends in Tamilnadu

Please find the attached Tableau Workbook:

Ans 2. Percent of women are graduating from stem majors (Computer science and Engineering) by 2015 - Computer science 2015 - 18.00 % Engineering 2015 - 20.100 %

Ans 3. Percent of women are in health-related jobs with their master’s education and Professional/Doctoral Degree- Master’s education - 25.24% Professional/Doctoral Degree - 19.48%

Ans 4. Percent of women are working in computers who majored in Computers - 38.00 %
Percent of women are working in Engineering jobs who majored in Engineering - 24.00

Ans 5. The difference in salary in Asian women and men - Men salary - 96,311 Women salary - 81,011 Difference - 15,300.

Detailed insight on what can be the possible issues on gender gap in STEM Jobs:

Science, technology, engineering, and medicine – together known as ‘STEM’ fields – suffer from lack of women, especially in India. In school exam results, we hear of how girls have outshone boys, but when it comes to those who take up research in later life, the number of women is minuscule. This means that many of our best brains that showed the maximum potential do not pick research as a career. Some of the greatest scientists and mathematicians have been women, they remain under-represented in comparison to their male counterparts in higher studies involving science, as well as among the top scientific achievers. Status of gender gap in the field of Science, technology, engineering and mathematics: According to the 2018 UNESCO Institute for Statistics’ report on women in science, 44% of bachelor students and 41% of doctoral students in India are female.
Women face “double burden syndrome” – a culture where both men and women feel the family and household duties are primarily the woman’s responsibility.
According to a recent survey on Women in STEM, 81 per cent women in India perceive gender bias in performance evaluations.
While more women are enrolling in university, relatively few pursue careers in research.
The ideal fraction of 50% of female students has not been achieved.
There is a drastic drop in the percentage of women from the doctoral level to the scientist/faculty position.
There is a “major paucity” of women at the senior-most administrative and policy making positions in scientific institutions.
Women showed a preference for arts; however, female enrolment in science streams rose from 2010-11 to 2015-16.
The report found that in over 620 institutes and universities, including IITs, NITs, ISRO, and DRDO, the presence of women was 20.0% among Scientific and Administrative
Staff, 28.7% among Post-Doctoral Fellows, and 33.5% among PhD scholars.
In India, a 2016-17 NITI Aayog report compared female enrolment in various disciplines over five years, until 2015-16.
UNESCO data from 2014-16 show that only around 30% of female students select STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)-related fields in higher education.
Female enrolment is particularly low in information technology (3%), natural science, mathematics and statistics (5%) and engineering and allied streams (8%).
Possible issues/Reasons for this gender gap:
When highly qualified women drop out of the workforce, it results in considerable depletion of national resources in science and technology.
Stereotypes encountered by girls to the family-caring responsibilities.
Patriarchal society.
Women face bias when choosing a career.
Women continue to face the same kind of discrimination at work as they face in society.
According to a recent Accenture research report, the gender pay gap in India is as high as 67 percent.
Various studies have found that girls excel at mathematics and science-oriented subjects in school, but boys often believe they can do better, which shapes their choices in higher studies.
In 2015, an analysis of PISA scores by OECD found that the difference in math scores between high-achieving boys and girls was the equivalent of about half a year at school.
But when comparing boys and girls who reported similar levels of self-confidence and anxiety about mathematics, the gender gap in performance disappeared — when girls were more anxious,
they tended to perform poorly.

The problem of entry of women in science is not uniform across disciplines. Interventions geared to popularizing subjects such as Engineering or the Physical sciences or Chemistry among female students at the school level in both urban and rural areas might be helpful in changing mind-set.