That was one of the key points made Tuesday morning at NASA headquarters during an event billed as the “Symposium on Supporting Underrepresented Minority Males in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).”
Getting individuals to enter STEM fields and careers is not as much an issue as paying them enough money to want to stay in STEM occupations, said panelist Dr. Nicole Smith, senior economist at the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University.
“The key reason is pay. Let’s be frank about that,” Smith said during a panel discussion at the symposium titled “Implications from the Minority Male STEM Initiative.”
