> 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.
I had imagined that a mailing list dedicated to gender equity might be
familiar with the gender imbalance in our nations colleges, however
there are probably some who are less familiar than others.
The data you seek is in the following tables. I hope you find the U.S.
Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics a
sufficiently reliable source.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsold/D95/dtab255.html
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsold/D95/dtab257.html
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsold/D95/dtab258.html
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsold/D95/dtab260.html
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsold/D95/dtab261.html
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsold/D95/dtab263.html
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsold/D95/dtab266.html
These tables break down Associates degree, Bachelors degree, Masters
degree, Doctorate, and Professional degrees by sex, field of study, race
and country of origin.
One interesting part of this data is the gender disparities in foreign
students and how that disparity affects the overall disparities in the
science and engineering graduate degrees. If we take the American
students only we have this table of ratios of men's rate of getting
degrees to women's rate of getting degrees. (Note: this table is from
the data that the NCES had on their web page 2 years ago. If you go the
more recent data above, you'll find the female advantage today is even
greater than it was two years ago.)
rate of male/female US citizens getting degrees
Associate's Bachelor's Master's
Doctor's
degrees degrees degrees
degrees
Field of study
All fields ........................... 64% 79% 71%
120%
Agricultural Business and Production .. 208% 264% 173%
233%
Agricultural Sciences ................. 121% 134% 145%
244%
Architecture and Related Programs ..... 47% 176% 154%
174%
Area, Ethnic and Cultural Studies ..... 45% 54% 77%
73%
Biological Sciences/Life Sciences ..... 67% 90% 94%
133%
Business Management & Admin. Services . 41% 107% 167%
177%
Communications ........................ 94% 64% 54%
76%
Communications Technologies ........... 171% 98% 121%
63%
Computer and Information Sciences ..... 87% 243% 242%
406%
Conservation & Renew. Natural Resources 401% 197% 131%
335%
Education ............................. 27% 26% 28%
62%
Engineering ........................... 662% 490% 484%
649%
Engineering-Related Technologies ...... 843% 954% 416%
1143%
English Language & Literature/Letters . 52% 49% 49%
63%
Foreign Languages and Literatures ..... 36% 39% 48%
62%
Health Professions & Related Sciences . 16% 19% 22%
52%
Home Economics ........................ 9% 10% 19%
37%
Law and Legal Studies ................. 13% 46% 192%
190%
Liberal/General Studies & Humanities .. 64% 63% 50%
81%
Library Science ....................... 11% 10% 22%
50%
Marketing Opers./Market. & Distribution 30% 67% 127%
Mathematics ........................... 131% 105% 125%
258%
Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies ....... 88% 55% 86%
104%
Parks, Recreation, Leisure & Fitness .. 139% 93% 113%
173%
Philosophy and Religion ............... 216% 164% 209%
210%
Physical Sciences ..................... 114% 195% 232%
322%
Protective Services ................... 246% 157% 156%
231%
Psychology ............................ 29% 35% 36%
60%
Public Administration and Services .... 21% 28% 37%
65%
Science Technologies .................. 139% 167% 317%
317%
Social Sciences and History ........... 65% 112% 118%
133%
Theological Studies/Religious Vocations 119% 314% 142%
550%
Visual and Performing Arts ............ 64% 61% 76%
122%
Vocational Home Economics ............. 10% 66% 19%
12%
First-professional degrees
All fields ........................... 141%
Chiropractic (D.C., D.C.M.) ........... 237%
Dentistry (D.D.S., D.M.D.) ............ 184%
Medicine (M.D.) ....................... 157%
Optometry (O.D.) ...................... 99%
Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) ........... 196%
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ................... 51%
Podiatry (D.P.M., D.P., Pod.D.) ....... 256%
Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) .......... 57%
Law (LL.B., J.D.) ..................... 128%
Divinity/Ministry (B.D., M.Div.) ...... 261%
Rabbinical & Talmudic Stu. (M.H.L./Rav) 3048%
Other / undefined field ............... 245%
All data is from table 3 of the U.S. Department of Education, National
Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data
System, "Completions" survey, 1992-93 and "Consolidated" survey, 1993.
The rate of male/female US citizens getting degrees is computed from
table
three by elliminating Nonresident aliens, and unknown categories and
using
the using the college age male/female population ratio of 1.05
> ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTE:
>
> If that's possible...
Thanks, but I collected this data some time ago, and posted that note
fully prepared to back it up. Perhaps Linda can provide the same level
of detail for some of her own wild claims since she demands this of me.
Robert Weverka
<weverka@optivision.com>
> > 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>