Times Higher Education's data editor, Simon Baker, joins Sara Custer this week to explore female enrolments on STEM related undergraduate courses and the trend that Gulf universities outperform all other countries in this metric by a wide margin. 

And we turn to Natasha Ridge, executive director of the Al Qasimi Foundation for Reserach Policy in the UAE to help explain why there are so many female STEM undergradautes in the Gulf but so few female STEM professionals.