This luncheon event will provide girls with an overview of high demand occupations in STEM-focused fields where they can match interests, energy, and creativity with well-paying jobs where women are underrepresented.
PCD Career Connections are student career exploration sessions for participating PCD schools.
This is an in-person and hybrid Career Exploration offering.
Pew Research continues to report on the inequity in gender placement for STEM jobs across the US (Pew Report, 4/1/21). Their findings include: “Women make up a quarter or fewer of workers in computing and engineering,” and “Women continue to be vastly underrepresented in the ranks of engineers and architects (15%).”
This luncheon event will provide girls with an overview of high demand occupations in STEM-focused fields where they can match interests, energy, and creativity with well-paying jobs where women are underrepresented.