New Commerce Department Report Finds Greater Wage Parity, Premium for Women in STEM Jobs

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2011.  The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) today issued the second in a series of reports on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs and higher education.

As expected, the report, Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation, finds there are fewer women than men in STEM jobs and attaining degrees in STEM fields. But interestingly, that’s true despite the fact that the wage premium for women in…