From left, Carolyn Forgues, JaNae Sudduth, Kiara Odums, Nicole Klann and Lola Valdovino, all members of the Kansas City Girls Who Code club, complete a lesson on computer coding on iPads at the Apple store on the Country Club Plaza in February 2017. (Joe Ledford/Kansas City Star/TNS)
It is often said that women are absent from the sciences. But this is not true. Not anymore.
Although a gender gap remains in the sciences overall, the gap is closing. Women are now more likely than men to earn undergraduate degrees in biology, and they are almost as likely as men to earn undergraduate degrees in chemistry and math.
