Data

Fast Facts
Historical Data
Data
Employment
Salary, Funding, and Awards
International
Statistics Links
Reading

Fast Facts

• Myths about Women in STEM
• Undergraduate Women in STEM
• Graduate Women in STEM
• Availability Pools of Women in STEM
• Academic Employment of Women in STEM
• 2009 NAS Report Graph and Data Table
• Phoebe's Talk-NIH ORWH Conference Chicago October 16, 2009
• Phoebe's Talk-Baltimore AWIS October 6, 2009
  
   

Historical Data

• Doctorates awarded 1920-1999, by sex of recipient and broad field of doctorate (Fig.)
• Doctorates awarded 1900-1999, by sex of recipient
• Women’s shared of doctorates earned by US citizens by major field, 1960-64 and 1995-99

 Data

• Bachelors degrees awarded 1966-2004, by sex (Fig.)
• Female share of Science and Engineering post-doctoral fellows: 1995 & 2005 (Fig.)
• Female Doctoral recipients by field of study: 2005
• Doctoral degrees in S&E and non-S&E fields 1966-2005, by sex (Fig.)

• Intentions of freshmen to major in S&E fields, by race/ethnicity and sex: 2004 (Table)

• Enrollment status of Science and Engineering graduate students, by field and sex: 2005 (Table)
• Bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees conferred, by sex of student and field of study: 2004–05 (Table) 
• Degrees in the biological and biomedical sciences, by level of degree and sex of student: Selected years, 1951–52 through 2004–05 (Table) 
• Degrees in engineering and engineering technologies, by level of degree and sex of student: Selected years, 1949–50 through 2004–05 (Table) 
• Degrees in the physical sciences and science technologies, by level of degree and sex of student: Selected years, 1959–60 through 2004–05 (Table) 
• Degrees in chemistry, geology, and physics, by level of degree: 1970–71 through 2004–05 (Table)
• Degrees in mathematics and statistics, by level of degree and sex of student: Selected years, 1949–50 through 2004–05 (Table)
• Degrees in computer and information sciences, by level of degree and sex of student: 1970–71 through 2004–05 (Table)

Employment

• S&E faculty, by sex and type of institution: 2003 (Fig.)
• Representation of women MDs in academic medicine faculty positions, 1965-2004 (Fig.)
• Proportion of women in academic medicine, by educational stage and rank (Fig.)
• NIH  2nd Task Force on the Status of NIH Intramural Women  (May 2007) (pdf)
• Education and Employment of Biological & Medical Scientists: Data from National Surveys (Fig.)

Salary, Funding, and Awards

• Women in Science and Technology: The Sisyphean Challenge of Change (wage rates by gender, 1995-2003) (pdf)  
• NIH Research grant funding, by sex, 1994-2004 (Table)
• The RAISE Project: Recognition of the Achievements of Women In Science, Medicine, and Engineering

International

Statistics Links

• National Science Board Science and Engineering Indicators 2008
• National Science Foundation Division of Science Resource Statistics

• Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology
• National Center for Education Statistics
• Statistics on European Women in Science from the European Commission

Reading

• Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (link)
• To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering (link)
• Women Advancing Science, Handelsman J and Birgeneau R. Technology Review (link)