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The Future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths

Women make up just 24% of the STEM workforce in the UK. Black students are more likely to drop out of higher education before they even enter that workforce than white students. There's only one black chemistry professor in the UK out of 575, Professor Robert MacKiah,. Angela Sainey is an award-winning journalist and author of Inferia. Kate Clancy is an anthropologist specializing in reproductive health. They've carried out research into the prevalence and impact of sexual harassment in science.

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