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Marianna Pagkratidou; Michalis P. Michaelides; Vasiliki Pitsia; Anastasios Karakolidis – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2025
Science, technology engineering, and mathematics (STEM) professions offer competitive earnings, tend to be compatible with technological advances, and are predicted to remain in high demand in the future. Many countries, including Greece, have prioritised STEM education on their educational agendas, aiming to prepare students for careers in these…
Descriptors: STEM Careers, Occupational Aspiration, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Hall, Marissa; Rathburn, Amy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
Demand for jobs in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and in the health care field is projected to grow faster than the average for all occupations in the United States (Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019). However, the current STEM and health care workforces are characterized by demographic disparities and a lack of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2012
When you think of someone who is an engineer, do you imagine a man or a woman wearing a hardhat? How about when you imagine a teacher standing in front of a class of schoolchildren? If you answer "a man" to the first question, and "a woman" to the second, there's probably a reason. And the reason is simply that more men than…
Descriptors: Careers, Females, Labor Market, Engineering