About 6 in 10 feel Latino scientists aren’t visible enough in successful STEM jobs, according to survey by the Pew Research Center.
15,000 U.S. adults were surveyed including 3,716 Hispanics. The report also draws from a study done with 29 Latino participants in July 2021.
The report highlighted how Hispanics felt about their representation in STEM career fields and their overall trust in the healthcare system, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly three-fourths of Hispanic Americans say they can “rely a lot or some” on experts about the coronavirus and vaccinations but many participants expressed their unhappiness with the way information about COVID-19 is shared.
“I think a lot of times when they see us coming in or they see that they’re helping us out, they don’t feel like they have to give us the best medicine or they need to give us the best hope because they already feel like we probably come in with bogus insurance, if we even have insurance,” said a Hispanic man who participated in the focus groups in the report. “They give us stuff that’s not as great or they don’t give us all the best information because they feel like we’re poor.”
More than half of Hispanics believe their community has not reached the highest levels of success in scientific fields, the report says, and “relatively few” Hispanic adults believe most scientists are “welcoming” to Hispanic professionals in those settings.
Forty-three percent of Hispanic college graduates who work in STEM fields recall at least one of several types of mistreatment which is a 13 percent increase from white adults in similar jobs.
While strides are being made, Latinos must continue to fight to gain representation in STEM-related fields.
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