![]() Meanwhile, LinkedIn data showed countries like the Philippines, at 14 percent Australia, at 17 percent and the US at 20 percent showed “higher dips” in female representation post-graduation, resulting in wider gender gaps in STEM employment at 22 percent, 21 percent, and 22 percent, respectively. “The average drop off in female representation between graduation and entering the STEM workforce in Singapore, India, and Italy are smaller, which results in negligible gender gaps in STEM jobs at 15 percent, 5 percent, and 12 percent respectively,” LinkedIn said. Meanwhile, on the second trend it highlighted, LinkedIn data showed that in countries where the decline in female representation from graduation to joining the STEM workforce is less significant, the disparity between men and women in STEM jobs tends to be minor. The drop in representation between graduation and joining the workforce has been stable at around 11 percent from the 2017 graduating batch, but it spiked to 14 percent in 2021, LinkedIn noted. In the Philippines, women comprised 4 out of 10 or 41 percent of STEM graduates in 2017, but only slightly more than 3 out of 10 or 36.6 percent were in the STEM workforce a year later. In fact, LinkedIn data showed the “sharpest drop in female representation (7 percentage points) happens between graduation and entering the STEM workforce, which only decreases as they start climbing the leadership ladder.” The first trend highlighted that while women graduate globally with STEM degrees, fewer are entering the STEM workforce. In addition, it said the lack of female role models in the field contributes to the drop off of women working in the STEM industry. LinkedIn showed data highlighting two trends, noting that women in STEM are graduating but not staying in the field. In the Asia Pacific region, gender gaps in STEM employment were also seen in Australia, at 21 percent Singapore, 15 percent and India with the smallest gap at 5 percent. “In the Philippines, women comprised 58.8 percent of the workforce in non-STEM fields but only 36.3 percent in the STEM workforce,” LinkedIn said in a statement on Tuesday. LinkedIn data showed that the widest STEM gender gap in APAC is in the Philippines, along with the United States and the United Kingdom, at 22 percent. New data from LinkedIn-some of which was published recently in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2023-revealed that women continue to be “significantly underrepresented” in STEM roles globally, making up 29 percent of the STEM workforce, with 8 in 10 leadership roles filled by men. THE Philippines has the widest employment gap between men and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the Asia Pacific region, according to major professional network platform LinkedIn.
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