Driven by Purpose or Passion: What Nepalese Women Have to Say About Their STEM Careers?

It is a worldwide phenomenon that women have a low representation in STEM careers: namely Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Even in the developed countries like the USA and Australia, gender disparity in STEM is really high, fuelled even more by gender pay gap.

In the USA, on an average, women make up only 28% of the workforce in STEM careers. In addition to this, the gender gap is particularly high in the highest paying STEM jobs like Engineering and Computer Science..