Did you know...

• Only 10.7% of engineers are women. (National Science Foundation, 2009)
• 21% of girls say their parents encourage them to become an actress, while 10% of girls say their parents have encouraged them to think about an engineering career. (Harris Interactive for the American Society for Quality, 2009)
• While girls represented 61% of all AP exam-takers in 2008, they represented only 13% of all students who took the AP Computer Science AB exam that year. (College Board, 2008) 
• Female share of bachelor's degrees in computer science dropped from 27% in 1985 to 17.7% in 2008. (National Science Foundation, 2008)
• In 2008, women accounted for 21.6% of graduate students in engineering and 22% in computer sciences. Women accounted for roughly 30%-45% of graduate students in most other science fields. (National Science Foundation, 2008)
• A survey of the top 50 universities in the United States reveals that while half of the recipients of a Bachelor of Science degree in math are women, they make up less than 10% of the math faculty. (Nelson Diversity Survey 2004)
• The average starting salary for a chemical engineer is $64,902. Yet in 2007-08, only 18% of bachelor's degrees in engineering were awarded to women. This is the lowest representation of women in the field in nearly 10 years. (American Society of Engineering Education, 2009)
• For every dollar earned by a man, a woman only earns 91 cents. (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010)