December 17, 2017
During his December 17, 2017 CNN GPS "What in the World" segment [go to: 10:26:54], Fareed Zakaria cited the Smithsonian Science Education Center when he discussed women in the workforce as a matter of economic productivity. According to Zakaria, a new report out by Standard & Poor's indicates that women who leave the workforce or never enter it have cost the United States greatly. S&P says that the U.S. economy would be $1.6 trillion bigger today if women in America entered and stayed in the workforce at the same rate women in Norway have. Zakaria notes, "Only 14 percent of women age 25 to 64 in the U.S. have studied a STEM field to begin with, a recent OECD report shows." The data Zakaria attributed to the Smithsonian Science Education Center comes from a July 2011 report from the US Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, which projected that STEM jobs would grow by 17 percent from 2008-2018 compared to 9.8 percent growth for non-STEM occupations.
Read more at https://www.commerce.gov/data-and-reports/reports/2011/07/st...