BLS reports this occupation as 18.2% women and 15.3% Hispanic across 154,000 workers. highest Hispanic share in the technical family.
How people get in
CompTIA and vendor certs, often via military or Job Corps.
Where it sits against the rest
| Occupation | Employed | % women | % Hispanic | Latina |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical & electronics engineers | 284,000 | 10.1% | 10.6% | 1.07% |
| Mechanical engineers | 419,000 | 11.2% | 10.9% | 1.22% |
| Software developers | 2,254,000 | 20.3% | 6.1% | 1.24% |
| Chemical engineers | 85,000 | 24.9% | 5.6% | 1.39% |
| Computer programmers | 381,000 | 18.5% | 9.2% | 1.70% |
| Database administrators & architects | 148,000 | 36.3% | 6.8% | 2.47% |
| Industrial engineers | 274,000 | 23.3% | 11.0% | 2.56% |
| Computer support specialists | 677,000 | 29.1% | 9.2% | 2.68% |
| Civil engineers | 525,000 | 21.8% | 12.5% | 2.73% |
| Network & systems administrators | 154,000 | 18.2% | 15.3% | 2.78% |
| Web developers | 66,000 | 36.8% | 11.4% | 4.20% |
| Computer systems analysts | 569,000 | 44.0% | 10.7% | 4.71% |
| Elementary & middle school teachers | 3,511,000 | 79.2% | 12.8% | 10.14% |
| Preschool & kindergarten teachers | 644,000 | 97.1% | 18.7% | 18.16% |
Highlighted rows are the teaching occupations that broad "STEM" definitions include.
What actually moves it
- WIOA-funded training — pays for the credential, ages 14 to 24 and adults: find your local office.
- Registered apprenticeship — a wage from day one instead of tuition: apprenticeship.gov.
- FAFSA — the gate to nearly all aid, free to file: studentaid.gov.
- Start at 14 — the youngest funded on-ramp we know of: work and paid training at 14.
En español
Hay aproximadamente 27,911 latinas trabajando como desarrolladoras de software en todo Estados Unidos — de 2,254,000 personas en esa ocupación. Las latinas son alrededor del 1.2% de esa profesión, mientras que los hispanos representan casi el 19% de la fuerza laboral del país.
Cuando una organización dice "latinas en STEM" e informa un número mucho más alto, generalmente está incluyendo maestras de preescolar y soporte técnico. Ese trabajo es real y está mal pagado — pero no es ingeniería de datos.
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Photographs on this campaign are licensed stock used as illustration — not portraits of people in the BLS counts. Full credits: CREDITS.md.