sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) (11/11/84)
>From decwrl!CSL-Vax!JF@SU-SCORE.ARPA Sat Nov 10 14:58:19 1984 >Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 SMI; site sun.uucp >Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site CSL-Vax.ARPA >Path: sun!decwrl!CSL-Vax!JF@SU-SCORE.ARPA >From: JF@SU-SCORE.ARPA >Newsgroups: su.bboard >Subject: "results on sex differences in grad school" >Message-ID: <1694@CSL-Vax.ARPA> >Date: 10 Nov 84 22:58:19 GMT >Date-Received: 11 Nov 84 17:12:03 GMT >Sender: daemon@CSL-Vax.ARPA >Organization: Stanford University >Lines: 31 > >From: Joan Feigenbaum <JF@SU-SCORE.ARPA> > >The conference on differences in grad school experiences for men and women >in science took place yesterday. I have a copy of the results in my office. >The result that surprised the most people I've talked to is that women grad >students in science at stanford are on average almost identically qualified >to male grad students in science at stanford, the most important difference >being that the women have statistically significantly HIGHER verbal and >analytical GRE scores. If you'd like your own copy of the results, you >can obtain one from the Center for Research on Women here on campus. > >I also picked up a sheet of statistics about numbers of PhD's awarded in >the US in 1983, broken down by field. You can come by and take a look at >that in my office, as well. Some of the interesting numbers cited: > >The total number of PhD's in CS awarded by US universities in 1983 was >285; women received 36, which is 13%. In Mathematics, the total number >awarded was 701 (doesn't this seem ridiculously high), of which women >received 113, or 16%--up from 10% in 1975. In Physics/Astronomy, there >were 1,042 PhD's awarded (this is CERTAINLY more than are going to be able >to get good research jobs in physics, nu?), and women received 74, or >7%, only slightly less dismally represented than the 5% they received >in 1975. The only fields in which women received a majority of the PhD's >awarded in 1983 are "Health Sciences" (56% or 636 PhD's awarded) and >Languages and Literature (54% or 1218 PhD's awarded). > >One very interesting comparison to be made here, although it's not the >focus of the table, is that there were almost 6 times as many PhD's >awarded in Languages and Literature as there were in CS, and about 17 >times as many in Psychology (3307, of which women got 48%) as in CS. -- mail ucbvax\!sun\!sunny decvax\!sun\!sunny ihnp4\!sun\!sunny<<EOF EOF