Making Science Make Sense

Bayer Facts Of Science Eduction Survey XIII

Fortune 1000 STEM Executives on STEM Education, STEM Diversity and U.S. Competitiveness

• Seven-in-ten executives (71%) say their companies have specific programs in place to recruit women and minority STEM workers, compared with less then two-in-ten (18%) of the emerging STEM company CEOs who said their companies have such programs.
  
  
• Among Fortune 1000 STEM executives with such programs in place, more than half (58%) recruit from colleges and universities that traditionally serve women and minorities, such as the historically black colleges and universities or the Seven Sister schools.
  
  

• Nearly all executives (96%) consider it important for women and minorities to hold senior management positions within STEM companies to ensure younger female and minority employees have role models.
  
  
• While executives give their companies an average grade of B in providing female and minority mentors, they are fairly split about the job they are doing, with 55% assigning themselves an A/B grade and 45% a C/D.
  
  

• Nearly two-thirds of executives (63%) report their companies have specific programs designed to nurture and retain women and minority STEM workers once they’ve been hired.
  
  

• Four-in-five executives (80%) report their companies face challenges in hiring adequate numbers of women and minorities for STEM positions. Of those facing challenges, half (50%) say they are frustrated by their companies’ inability to hire adequate numbers of women and minority STEM workers.