There鈥檚 a huge gender pay gap for STEM careers 鈥� just one year after graduation
Vittavat/Bigstock
and covered a study about the gender pay gap for STEM PhDs published in the Papers and Proceedings issue of the 蝌蚪网 Review. In STEM Training and Early Career Outcomes of Female and Male Graduate Students, the authors study the early career paths of over 1,200 newly-minted PhDs in science and engineering fields. They find women earn 31% less on average in their first year out of school, with the majority of the gap attributable to differences in field of study and sector of employment.