The low number of female professors in STEM is not due to lack of female graduates. A study by the U.S. National Research Council found “more women than men are earning doctorates—yet women comprised 36 percent of assistant professors and only 27 percent of tenure candidates.” The problem is unwelcoming workplace conditions. For example female professors are looked down upon if they leave the office to pick up their children, even if they work from home the rest of the evening. The assumed motherly role females sometimes naturally have, make them less respected by males in the workplace. This type of discrimination has to end and a transformation of the work environment that accepts female professors is the way to increase them in the profession.

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