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By: The Mommy Wars and Science Collide (Again) | Reality Base | Discover Magazine

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:17 +0000

[...] point is neither incorrect nor new, for scientists or the rest of the working [...]

By: The Mommy Wars and Science Collide (Again) | Reality Base | Discover Magazine

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:05:18 +0000

[...] point is neither incorrect nor new, for scientists or the rest of the working world. Universities have been openly addressing the gender disparity in [...]

By: » Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men? Wiseblog

» Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men? Wiseblog — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:58:32 +0000

[...] are backed by exhaustive studies: The proportion of female faculty in her department, 14 percent, is exactly equal to the overall average from the top fifty US chemistry [...]

By: Lisa Jarvis

Lisa Jarvis — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:07:39 +0000

Academia aside, I’d be interested to hear some views as to why the proportion of female scientists at high levels in industry is so minuscule. The Wall Street Journal does a “Top 50 Women to Watch” every year, and every year that I peruse and notice the majority of those highlighted are outside of research-oriented industries. My focus is usually on the pharma industry, and there appear to be few women in the executive suites there, aside from legal and HR positions. Biotech is a little better, but it still surprises me how rare it is that I am offered an interview with a female scientist. Why is this? Anyone within industry have any thoughts?

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:53:20 +0000

If you want data,check out these web sites
http://www.awis.org/documents/FINALPayGapinSTEMReport.pdf or
http://www.aauw.org/research/upload/behindPayGap.pdf

By: rahul

rahul — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:33:39 +0000

how about a survey of educated women in Asian countries ? it seems that in asia women have more responsibility of their family, due to that after higher qualifiacation also they are not pursuing their academic career only few continue…..

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:41:48 +0000

Yeah, it may be to complicated to thoroughly sort out easily.

By: Carmen Drahl

Carmen Drahl — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:20:17 +0000

I think it’s really hard to get accurate statistics on that sort of thing, Mitch. For starters, this is a census only of ACS-approved programs (at least, those were the only programs obligated to report data). Also, how would the survey designers have to phrase the question? Just ask what someone’s goals are, give options, or something else? I’d bet the results would be different each time.

By: mitch

mitch — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:52:01 +0000

I’ve never met a female PhD student who wanted to be a professor. They usually say they don’t want to put family on the back-burner. But this is only anecdotal data from my experience, a statistic would be very useful.

By: Jyllian Kemsley

Jyllian Kemsley — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:03:34 +0000

I would assume that, all else being equal, women on average have the same career goals as men. Why would you assume otherwise?