Applied Statistics Highlights

Leaks in the Academic Pipeline Are Discipline-Specific Phoebe Leboy, President of AWIS, explores the topic at a seminar with the American Association of Physics Teachers on January 23rd, 2008.

Why Are Women Underrepresented on the Faculties of American Medical Schools? Phoebe Leboy provides her response in this Powerpoint presentation presented at a seminar sponsored by the Bethesda chapter of the Association for Women in Science on September 19th, 2007.

Education

A. 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

A. Recent 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
• 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 (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

Society

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)