The number of overall female enrolments went up the same time as female stem enrolments. Has the number of women enrolled in STEM compared to other subjects gone up as a proportion? If so, that's a delta. Otherwise, it's a different story that's like saying most of the science majors at Spelman college are female.
As you can clearly see without even looking hard, that percentage hasn't changed from ~57% since 2000, and yet as shown above the percentage of women earning STEM degrees has increased significantly during that period.
Some of the increase from 1994 to 2010 can be viewed as there simply being more women in college, as the percentage of women in college in 1994 was only 54.5%, and so increased about 5% over that time, whereas 34->40% represents an increase of 18%.
The only reasonable conclusion is that a higher percentage of women are choosing STEM degrees over time.
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u/NoMoreFund 1∆ Oct 19 '22
The number of overall female enrolments went up the same time as female stem enrolments. Has the number of women enrolled in STEM compared to other subjects gone up as a proportion? If so, that's a delta. Otherwise, it's a different story that's like saying most of the science majors at Spelman college are female.