Women continue to go down in their numbers in entering these fields, and I did put an amendment on the original bill before it went to the Senate that contained a study to involve more women.
Eddie Bernice Johnson: “Women continue to go down in their numbers in entering these fields, and I did put an amendment on the original bill…”
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Johnson highlights the decline of women in STEM fields and her efforts to address it.
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