Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many secondary school STEM subject teachers are women.
The following table shows the number of Full Time Equivalent (FTE) teachers with STEM subjects listed as their main subject as reported during the 2021 census of teachers in publicly funded schools in Scotland.
The figures exclude head teachers and deputy head teachers.
Female | Male | Total | |
Biology | 1,011 | 332 | 1,343 |
Chemistry | 658 | 361 | 1,019 |
Computing Studies | 249 | 346 | 595 |
Home Economics | 760 | 31 | 791 |
Mathematics | 1,429 | 1,035 | 2,464 |
Physics | 275 | 561 | 836 |
Science (general) | 87 | 78 | 165 |
Technical Education | 429 | 811 | 1,239 |
All STEM subjects | 4,897 | 3,555 | 8,452 |
Source: Teacher census supplementary statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)