Latino, they comprised only 17 percent of science and engineering bachelor’s degrees awarded that year. (6) According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), only 0.3 percent of bachelors’ degrees and less than 0.2 percent of masters and doctoral degrees in STEM were awarded to American Indian and Alaska Native students from 2020 through 2021, less than half their representation of the total population of the United States in 2021. (7) According to the U.S. Census Bureau, from 2017 through 2021, less than 5 percent of women who worked full-time in the United States were employed in computer, engineering, or science occupations while more than 10 percent of men who worked full-time in the United States were employed in computer, engineering, or science occupations. Only 4 percent of Black or African Americans who worked full-time in the United States were employed in computer, engineering, or science occupations and only 5 percent of American Indian and Alaska Natives who worked full-time in the United States were employed in computer, engineering, or science occupations, while the national average of the full-time workforce in the United States who were employed in computer, engineering, or science occupations was 8 percent. (8) According to the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), women leave STEM fields at much higher rates than men. In 2021, while 79 percent of women awarded STEM degrees in 2020 were employed in a STEM occupation, only 53 percent of women remained in STEM within 5 years of earning their highest degree, and only 44 percent remained after 10 years. By contrast, 86 percent of men who had earned STEM degrees in 2020 were employed in STEM occupations, 73 percent of men remained in STEM within 5 years of earning their degree, and 70 percent of men remained in STEM after 10 years. (9) According to NCSES, STEM retention is even lower for women of color: in 2021, only 50 percent of Black women and 44 percent of Hispanic women who received STEM degrees in 2020