© 2024 WOSU Public Media
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Summer Camp At Ohio State Targets Girls For Engineering Jobs

The growth in the number of women pursuing science, technology, engineering, and math jobs has slowed in the past 20 years. Across the country women make up only about 26% of STEM jobs. A summer camp at Ohio State focuses on improving that figure. Director of the OSU Women in Engineering program, Shawna Fletcher says change doesn't happen as quickly as she and other engineers would like. (To hear the full interview, click on listen above.)