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4 Women and Minorities in Engineering
4 Women and Minorities in Engineering
Pages 58-71
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Table 17 shows the production of bachelor's degrees among women and minorities between 1978 end 1982, and thus suggests trends in the graduate school "pipeline supply. " For every group the trend is up, both in absolute numbers and percentages of the total.
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18,289 19J673 Women7948661,0831,2251,5391,7829.1 Blacks1991571631821842581.3 Hispanic2392142462762153061.6 Asian/Pacific7846758079598361,2836.5 Native American49471.:~< 0.1 SOURCES: Engineenng and Technology Degrees (New York: Engineering Manpower Commission, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982)
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. Paul Doigan, "Engineering Degrees Granted, 1983," Engireenng Education, April 1984, pp.
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. Another factor influencing the availability of women and ethnic minority students for graduate school admission is their "persistence rate" in undergraduate school.38 Table 19 provides some data on this, using 1979 and 1983 as the comparison years.
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It does appear, however, that young women no longer perceive engineering as a field that is closed to them. Women in Academic Careers The pool of faculty women who are engineers is too small to have been investigated statistically in any of the studies that could be identified as appropriate references for this report.
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body of data concerns women in science and engineering, it is assumed that faculty women are included unless otherwise specified; when studies about academic women in science reveal features that appear to be discriminatory toward women, it is assumed that these features also describe the situation of academic women engineers; when a salary survey carried out for engineers in all areas of the workplace reveals generally lower salaries for female members of the profession, faculty women are presumed to be similarly affected; and when a body of sociological studies documents discriminatory forces that influence the situation of women in society in general, those same forces are presumed to influence the careers of faculty women ire colleges of engineering. Valuable material concerning perceptions and experiences can be found in the Proceedings of tee Engineering Educators Workshop the workshop was held ~ conjunction with the 1979 national convention of the Society of Women Engineers30 and in the proceedings of a 1975 conference held at Comell University, Women ~ Engineenng Beyond Recruitment.
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The relatively low rate of continuation of women into engineering graduate school, compared with that of women in other disciplines, cannot be explained in tennis of a simple lack of interest in graduate studies on the part of the women. The attractive job offers available to engineering B.S.
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27 (26.5%}58 156~9%) 2 (1~9%} SOURCE: Scientific Manpower Commission.
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Within universities, women were found to be less likely than men to be in research institutions. A study by the National Academy of Sciences found that almost 26 percent of doctoral men but only 21 percent of the doctoral women scientists were in the top 50 academic institutions, as measured by R&D expenditures.4i A larger proportion of the women than of the men were found in two-year colleges and in elementary and secondary schools.
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~ In spite of their low representation as engineering faculty members {approximately 1 percent) , women submitted 5 percent of the research proposals received by the Engineering Directorate of the National Sci A~e 3Oo-239 F S25$3O2O,ioo~° 40- 49 i 37,600 ~45,900 50 ~40,700 ~ S4S, 800 a, Average I Female EE's Salary Male E's Salary FIGURE 19 Average yearly pay for male and female electrical engineers, according to age.
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The faculty member in a research-oriented institution who fails to attract grant support is seriously handicapped in pursuing a successful academic career. He or she is at a considerable disadvantage in attracting graduate students and hence in carrying out a viable research program.
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The feelings of exclusion from informal collegial networks almost uniformly reported by faculty women in engineering and scientific fields suggest that women have not been accepted as colleagues with equal participatory rights in the informal activities associated with career success. This, too, can result in the continuing perception that academic opportunities are less than equal for women engineering faculty.
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