In a year where police brutality, a pandemic and an intense presidential election have encouraged technologists from underrepresented backgrounds to find more ways to support one another in the workplace, diversity continues to be an essential conversation in STEM.

For the second year in a row, Philadelphia ranked among the five best cities for STEM diversity, according to analysis of Census Bureau’s American Community Survey data by SmartAsset.

The personal finance company evaluated information from the 35 cities across the country with the most STEM workers. A gender diversity index also measured the number of women in STEM jobs by percentage in those cities. Philadelphia comes in third — down from second in 2019 — following Oakland and Boston.

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