Re: Important affirmative action alert

Linda Purrington (lpurring@earthlink.net)
Tue, 05 May 1998 09:17:49 -0700


Please provide figures and sources for the full range of participation
including breakdown by years, times specialties, and results in wage
figures of over the lifetime of the graduate.

Linda Purrington, Title IX Advocates
lpurring@earthlink.net

ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTE:

If that's possible...

edequity-admin@mail.edc.org

Ted Weverka wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexa Marie Adamo [mailto:gs09ama@panther.Gsu.EDU]
> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 1998 11:17 AM
> > To: edequity@tristram.edc.org
> > Subject: Important affirmative action alert
>
> > Elimination of affirmative action in education will also take
> > a toll on
> > women students who comprise more than 50% of undergraduate
> > student bodies,
> > but are not well represented at the graduate level or in some
> > majors, such
> > as mathematics and engineering.
>
> Just a quick correction. The ratio of women to men in undergraduate
> student bodies is more than 1.2 to 1. The ratio of women to men in
> graduate student bodies is even higher.
>
> -Robert Weverka
> <weverka@optivision.com>


new message to this message