Science and Engineering Workforce Has Stalled In the US

dcblogs writes "The science and engineering workforce in the U.S. has flatlined, according to the Population Reference Bureau. As a percentage of the total labor force, S&E workers accounted for 4.9% of the workforce in 2010, a slight decline from the three previous years when these workers accounted for 5% of the workforce. That percentage has been essentially flat for the past decade. In 2000, it stood at 5.3%. The reasons for this trend aren't clear, but one factor may be retirements. S&E workers who are 55 and older accounted for 13% of this workforce in 2005; they accounted for 18% in 2010. 'This might imply that there aren't enough young people entering the S&E labor force,' said one research analyst."

Comments

Its the war on intelligence

[RobertLTux]

Nobody wants to go into these jobs because they require you to be able to think. And of course since the GOAL of Public Education for the last 20 years has been to prevent the student from thinking of course we are running low on young thinkers.

Re:Complicated.

[davester666]

But we HAVE to not encourage boys to go into science and engineering until half the enrollment in these programs are girls. Even if we have to reduce the size of the programs to produce only 10% of the graduates we have now, we MUST have equality.