The same article from the National Girls Collaborative Project found that although women earn about half of bachelor's degrees in biological sciences, the number of Other STEM specializations are decreasing significantly. Why is there a decrease? Eileen Pollack in “Why are there still so few women in science?” » explains that the Yale University physicist, chemist and biologist favored young men over young women, even if they had the same qualifications. And if they hired the woman, they would generally pay her less than her male counterpart. This favoritism refers to our implicit prejudices that we cannot seem to get rid of. In a YouTube video titled “Engineering – Where are the girls and why aren’t they here?” : Dr. Jenna Carpenter at TEDxMonroe, Dr. Jenna Carpenter explains that implicit bias is worse than stereotypes because implicit bias affects attitude, reactions, and expectations. women in STEM fields. This can lead to women being seen as arrogant and incompetent and, in doing so, demeaning them and their work. This could dissuade some women from