Project 1 - Analyzing the Education trends in Tamilnadu

1. Data from the National Science Foundation shows that 16,441 American women earned doctorates in 2021. This was 51.9 percent of all doctoral recipients among U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

2. Only 38% of women who majored in computer science are working in the field compared to 53% of men, according to data from the National Science Foundation.

3. In 2019, 31% of women with a STEM Bachelor's degree entered STEM occupations. Of those, 8.9% worked in engineering occupations, whereas 20.9% of men with similar educational attainment worked in engineering occupations (Digest of Education Statistics, 2019).

4. Earnings differences between women and men were largest among Asians and among Whites. Asian women earned 75 percent as much as Asian men in 2017, and White women earned 82 percent as much as White men.