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How Nations Fare in PhDs by Sex
- mobiuscog 12y agoAwaiting the alternative article: "How Nations Fare in Sex by PhDs"
- jgamman 12y agowish I'd known, mine was by exam... ;-)
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- tokenadult 12y agoExploring the country differences by different academic disciplines (grouped in categories by a control on the Web graphic) is interesting. It seems to show that the male preponderance is much greater in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines than in humanities disciplines, which is not a big surprise. Countries vary in their proportions of students pursuing each academic discipline, so a country with a lot of STEM Ph.D. holders will skew to showing an especially big disparity favoring males.
- davidgay 12y agoThere's at least two countries, Bulgaria and Turkey, where there isn't any significant discrepancy in the rate of male vs female PhDs between the "Non-Science" and "All Science & Engineering" categories. Probably other countries too, but I didn't attempt a systematic check.
- khuey 12y agoSome interesting differences: Thailand and Mongolia versus South Korea and Taiwan. Canada versus the US. Portugal versus Spain. Once you select specific disciplines a lot of the countries have extremely small relevant populations though.
- slashcom 12y agoThe source of the data also contains many interesting comparisons and conclusions, particularly with respect to time. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/index.cfm/chapter-5/c5h.htm http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind14/index.cfm/chapter-5/c5...
- jacobolus 12y agoI’d be curious to see what the gender breakdown looks like for native-born vs. immigrant PhD students, by field.
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- digitalzombie 12y agoThis is silly. Ukraine have more women than men in term of sex ratio. So of course there is more phd awarded to women than men. There are tons of debates on how there are less female in engineering and such but I have yet to see a reason why that is. It could be anything including something innoculous. If there is a systematically evil group that is trying to prevent women from going into CS then I am all for stopping them. But if because the women themselves just chose to do other things than CS than who am I to try to change their mind?
- lambada 12y agoI doubt there is a major group of deliberately evil people. But there are unconscious biases that we pretty well documented, and should be fought just as much. That's a third option between your two.
- slowmotiony 12y agoI find it funny that nobody is pushing for more women in coal mining and truck driving.
- boomlinde 12y agoThis data isn't all that useful since the gender distribution of the countries isn't considered. Latvia, for example, seems to favor women in most fields, but there are 8% more women than men which I am sure could account for some of the differences.