US$20 billion (S$27 billion) — that's how much GDP McKinsey & Company estimated Singapore could gain each year if we advanced our gender equality at the same rate as the world's best performer, Norway. After that report was released, Singapore actually took not one, but three years to grow her GDP by US$20 billion. That's not to say Singapore made...
US$20 billion — that's how much GDP McKinsey & Company estimated Singapore could gain each year if we advanced our gender equality at the same rate as the world's best performer, Norway.
According to a study by the Boston Consulting Group and Singapore's Infocomm Media Development Authority in 2020, women make up about 41 per cent of Singapore's tech workforce. And as companies make a conscious effort to hire more women, we can expect even more women to follow their lead. Zippia's 2022 survey found that 52 per cent of women felt having more female role models in a company would put that company in a better position to attract more women.Science and Mathematics are two essential pillars of the STEM umbrella, which has seen its proportion of women increase from 29.9 per cent in 2015 to 32.4 per cent in 2020.
A 2022 study by NTU funded by MOE found that Singapore women are less confident of their maths and science abilities than men, despite performing on par with them. It could be anything from career fairs in schools, to offhand remarks made to an impressionable young child that convince her that math is for boys and humanities is for girls. These are the kinds of seeds that can grow into a mindset of gender bias and self-doubt, and that we need to break down at their root.How often do you see a female engineer? We're guessing not too often. That's because engineering is probably the STEM field where women are the least represented.
Choosing an education in engineering and sustaining an interest in engineering is a big factor when it comes to increasing its female representation. It's not about difficulty with STEM subjects — in fact, a study by United Women Singapore and Agility Research & Strategy found that 82 per cent of girls compared to 72 per cent of boys rated STEM subjects as "very easy" or "fairly easy".
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