Gay men in stem

I worked in stem before transferring into a creative field, and will say that there were a fair share of gay men in the company. I don’t think it’s so much that gay men flock to fashion degrees, but they are on average way more interested in those fields than straight guys so they’re disproportionately represented.

But there's a twist: Retention is lower for men who identify as LGBQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer), while LGBQ women are actually more likely to persist in STEM than their heterosexual peers.

Ten days ago, Vanderbilt University announced two economists had concluded that gay men in same-sex couples are 12% less likely to have a STEM-related bachelor’s degree than straight and.

Falling between the gender and race gap, men in same-sex couples are 12 percentage points less likely to have a STEM degree, research by Vanderbilt economist Kitt Carpenter confirms.