. "C: Tables." From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2001.
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From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers
TABLE C-1 Percent Working Full Time in Each Sector, by Sex and Year of Survey
1973
1979
1989
1995
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Men
Women
Colleges and Universities
N
104,553
8,970
134,911
16,878
167,638
35,370
163,145
47,252
%
56.0
67.8
52.2
61.4
48.7
54.0
45.0
51.38
Government
N
21,318
1,312
27,941
2,362
33,264
5,287
37,236
9,208
%
11.4
9.9
10.8
8.6
9.7
8.1
10.3
10.0
Industry
N
47,829
960
72,286
3,470
116,528
15,174
135,486
24,121
%
25.6
7.3
28.0
12.6
33.9
23.2
37.3
26.2
Private Nonprofit and Hospitals
N
9,973
1,275
16,614
3,138
18,889
6,655
16,057
5,796
%
5.3
9.6
6.4
11.4
5.5
10.2
4.4
6.3
Other
N
2,884
653
4,208
1,224
5,904
2,381
8,141
4,338
%
1.5
4.9
1.6
4.5
1.7
3.6
2.2
4.7
Missing Data
N
314
68
2,387
399
1,911
583
2,894
1,254
%
0.17
0.5
0.9
1.5
0.6
0.9
0.8
1.4
Total
N
186,871
13,238
258,347
27,471
344,134
65,450
362,959
91,969
%
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
Note: Counts are weighted. Other is primarily education at below the level of a two-year college. Missing Data indicates that respondent did not respond to the questions or their response was unusable.
