Did you know...

• Only 11% of engineers are women. (National Science Foundation, 2004)
• More girls (21%) say their parents encourage them to become an actress than girls (10%) say their parents have encouraged them to think about an engineering career. (Harris Interactive for the American Society for Quality, 2009)
• While girls represent 61 percent of all AP exam-takers in 2008, they represent only 13% of students who took the AP Computer Science AB exam in 2008. (College Board, 2008) 
• Only 10% of students report that school personnel help them with career guidance (Ferris State University Career Institute, 2002). In California, the ratio of students to counselor is 954:1 (California Department of Education, 2002)
• Female share of bachelor's degrees in computer science dropped from 27% in 1985 to 25% in 2004. (National Science Foundation, 2004)
• In 2006, women accounted for 23% of graduate students in engineering and 25% in computer sciences. Women accounted for roughly 30%-45% of graduate students in most other science fields. (NSF, 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 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 nearly 10 years. (American Society of Engineering Education, 2009)
• While women make up nearly half of the United States workforce, they make up 26 percent of the science and engineering workforce. (National Science Foundation, 2006)
• For every dollar earned by a man, a woman only earns 79.9 cents (U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2008)