Ten countries, five continents, one pattern - women are less likely to pick STEM subjects

Barrios Fernández, Andrés; Bizopoulou, Aspasia

Ten countries, five continents, one pattern - women are less likely to pick STEM subjects

Andrés Barrios Fernández and Aspasia Bizopoulou

Women make up only 35 per cent of STEM graduates globally. Andres Barrios Fernandez and Aspasia Bizopoulou show that while there is huge variety between countries in the educational attainment of men and women, young women's choices about studying STEM subjects look remarkably similar everywhere.

10 December 2025

LSE Europp

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/12/10/women-stem-subjects-pick-university-gender-gap/

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