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On page 25 of the NCWIT scorecard it states that in 2009 women earned: 57% of all undergraduate degrees, 52% of all math and science degrees, 59% of the underg

by junelin 13y ago

On page 25 of the NCWIT scorecard it states that in 2009 women earned: 57% of all undergraduate degrees, 52% of all math and science degrees, 59% of the undergraduate degrees in biology, 42% of mathematics degrees, 18% of all computer and information sciences undergraduate degrees We cross-checked 2 other sources for 2012 numbers as well. http://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/scorecard2010_printversion_web.pdf http://www.ncwit.org/sites/default/files/resources/scorecard...

michaelt 13y ago
I was really hoping to find a field CS could look to for inspiration on achieving-gender-equality done right. Looking at citation 32 from the PDF you linked it seems to be based on IPEDS [1]. Their data, for 2010 bachelors degrees conferred: IPEDS title | Table | Male | Female Health professions and related sciences | 326 | 19,306 | 110,328 Biological and biomedical sciences | 314 | 35,865 | 50,535 Mathematics and statistics | 327 | 9,087 | 6,943 Physical sciences and science technologies | 328 | 13,862 | 9,517 Engineering and engineering technologies | 320 | 73,833 | 14,896 Computer and information sciences | 318 | 32,410 | 7,179 | | | Total excluding health prof + related sci | | 165,057 | 89,070 (35% female) Total including health prof + related sci | | 184,363 | 199,398 (52% female) So we seem to be relying on "Health professions and related sciences" to bring the average up. I assume that's SIP code 51 but that seems like a very broad category [2] - for example it includes medicine, dentistry, nursing, yoga, dance therapy, and medical insurance coding. I'm not sure science as a whole should be patting ourselves on the back yet. It would be nice if we could get to gender equality without lumping all medicine in with science. [1] http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables_3.asp http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables_3.asp [2] http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/cipdetail.aspx?y=55&cipid=88742 http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/cipdetail.aspx?y=55&cipid=8...
- junelin 13y ago
  Carnegie Mellon has done some amazing work that has raised female enrollment in Computer Science from 7% in 1995 to 42% in 2000. We're going to do a follow-up examining what they've done. In fact, one of our female engineers went to CMU!

by junelin 13y ago

michaelt 13y ago

I was really hoping to find a field CS could look to for inspiration on achieving-gender-equality done right. Looking at citation 32 from the PDF you linked it seems to be based on IPEDS [1]. Their data, for 2010 bachelors degrees conferred: IPEDS title | Table | Male | Female Health professions and related sciences | 326 | 19,306 | 110,328 Biological and biomedical sciences | 314 | 35,865 | 50,535 Mathematics and statistics | 327 | 9,087 | 6,943 Physical sciences and science technologies | 328 | 13,862 | 9,517 Engineering and engineering technologies | 320 | 73,833 | 14,896 Computer and information sciences | 318 | 32,410 | 7,179 | | | Total excluding health prof + related sci | | 165,057 | 89,070 (35% female) Total including health prof + related sci | | 184,363 | 199,398 (52% female) So we seem to be relying on "Health professions and related sciences" to bring the average up. I assume that's SIP code 51 but that seems like a very broad category [2] - for example it includes medicine, dentistry, nursing, yoga, dance therapy, and medical insurance coding. I'm not sure science as a whole should be patting ourselves on the back yet. It would be nice if we could get to gender equality without lumping all medicine in with science. [1] http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables_3.asp http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d11/tables_3.asp [2] http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/cipdetail.aspx?y=55&cipid=88742 http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/cipdetail.aspx?y=55&cipid=8...

junelin 13y ago
Carnegie Mellon has done some amazing work that has raised female enrollment in Computer Science from 7% in 1995 to 42% in 2000. We're going to do a follow-up examining what they've done. In fact, one of our female engineers went to CMU!