As Figure A2-8 shows, more than half of the faculty in the health sciences in 1995-2003 were women. The biological sciences also had relatively large proportions of female faculty (20-30 percent). In the other four disciplines, and especially in engineering, women made up a small fraction of the faculty. In every field, however, the proportion […]

Male and female academics can be categorized along several dimensions. The first section examines academics by field and by the type of higher educa­tion institution in which they worked, followed by the distribution of male and female faculty across tenure status and rank. The term “academic” is used here to denote faculty, which are personnel […]

This section considers the employment sector of those who were employed full-time. NRC (2001a:102) noted that “sector of employment is a fundamental dimension of the scientific career that affects work experience, opportunities, с Cl) 30 CD CL 20 10 0 FIGURE A2-5 Percentage of females among doctorates employed full-time by discipline, 1995-2003. SOURCE: National Science […]

This section briefly examines the distribution of doctoral scientists and engi­neers employed full-time by field and gender. As shown in Figure A2-4, women employed in the biological, physical, and health sciences were the most likely to be working full-time. In the case of men, those who were employed in engineering and the physical sciences were […]

In 2003, the National Science Foundation (NSF) identified 492,440 doctoral scientists and engineers (or 685,300 if the social sciences and psychology are included) (NSF, 2006). Most of these doctoral scientists and engineers worked full-time. However, women were slightly less likely to be employed full-time. In a previous analysis of SDR data, the National Research Council […]

The number and percentage of women receiving doctorates in S&E grew from 8,648 (31.7 percent) in 1996 to 10,533 (37.7 percent) in 2005, as shown in Figure A2-1. Increases in women’s participation differed by field. Growth was particularly evident, as noted in Table A2-1, in civil engineering, the agricultural sciences, and the earth, atmospheric, and […]

PROFILE OF WOMEN IN ACADEMICSCIENCE AND ENGINEERING: 1995-2003 The 2001 National Academies’ study, From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers (NRC, 2001a), examined the careers of men and women scientists and engineers using data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (SDR) for four selected years: 1973, 1979, 1989, […]

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  Section B: Tenure Process Section В: Tenure Process Plwse answer (tie toll owing questions tor each faculty member who was considered for tenure during 2002-00 and 2903-0* It you considered more than tour faculty members, phase copy this page and attach the additional sheett’sl. Tenured or tenure-track faculty more senior than you Tenured or […]

The committee designed the surveys to collect information that has gone largely uncollected—or has been done for a few universities, but not across many institutions. As noted earlier in the chapter, the committee designed the depart­mental survey to focus on processes, particularly tenure, promotion, and hiring, as well as on departmental characteristics. The faculty survey, […]