Another big factor of why more women are not pursuing degrees in engineering is the wage gap where women are receiving less pay for the same work as their male counterparts. Even though STEM programs do come with above average pay when compared to other majors it is still disheartening to woman who have endured the same classes and obstacles as males to receive less money. Women engineers earn
96.7% of what men earn early in their careers (0-3 years experience), and earn
89.1% of what their male counterparts earn when both genders have more than 10
years experience