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- GAY MEN 'LS LIKELY' TO HAVE GREE SCIENCE, TECH, ENGEERG OR MATHS
- THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
GAY MEN 'LS LIKELY' TO HAVE GREE SCIENCE, TECH, ENGEERG OR MATHS
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A study by rearchers at the Universy of Exeter and Vanrbilt Universy Nashville, Tennsee, has intified a new Stem gap based on sexual orientatn, havg disvered that gay men are 12% ls likely to have pleted a bachelor’s gree Stem than men heterosexual study found that the Stem sexual orientatn gap for men was larger than the gap between whe and black men (4%), but smaller than the genr gap, which is 21%. There was no parallel gap between women same-sex upl and those heterosexual study also found that gay male reprentatn Stem was “systematilly and posively associated wh female reprentatn” the same study’s thors say they hope their rearch will help to “start to addrs the dire need for statistics on sexual and genr mori Stem” study says that spe legislative and stutnal progrs for LGBTQ people, the workplace for LGBTQ scientists is “still far om welg”, but is not jt about achievg equy.
THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
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Sansone said: “The patterns are highly suggtive that the mechanisms unrlyg the very large genr gap Stem fields such as heteropatriarchy, implic and explic bias, sexual harassment, unequal accs to fundg and fewer speakg vatns are related to the factors drivg the gap Stem fields between gay men and heterosexual men. A study that suggts straight men outnumber gay men might be easily dismissed as “no duh.