Fewer females in STEM Courses

Fidelity Investments has begun a collaboration with Dublin City University to increase levels of women entering careers in STEM.

Women make up 54.8% of the overall higher education population in Ireland, yet their representation in STEM and ICT disciplines remains disproportionately low. Just one in three students enrolled in STEM courses at third level are female. In ICT specifically, nearly three-quarters of students are male (74.9%), with women accounting for only 24.6%, according to the Higher Education Authority’s 2023/2024 data.

The gender gap is evident even earlier in the education pipeline: in 2023, only 29% of Leaving Certificate physics students were girls, with similarly low figures in computer science (21%), technology (17%) and even lower in engineering (9%), according to the CSO.

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