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2 Ensuring the Future Participation of Women in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering
2 Ensuring the Future Participation of Women in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering
Pages 7-12
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As women's participation increases in every other activity, science will be less attractive in general to talented students without active participation by women. Finally, it is unjust for a profession to organize itself in such a way as to exclude women; it is a pure justice argument.
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In the physical sciences women's participation is lagging, but has more than doubled in the 25-year period. Nineteen percent of bachelor's degrees in physics are awarded to women as are 18 percent of undergraduate engineering degrees.
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several years ago by Nancy Hopkins has now been replicated at several other institutions, including Cal Tech. The reports have shown that women in science and engineering faculty are more likely to report that they feel marginalized and isolated at their institution, have less job satisfaction, have unequal lab space, unequal salary, unequal recognition through awards and prizes, unequal access to university resources, and unequal invitations to take on important administrative responsibilities, especially those that deal with the future of the department or the research unit.
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Generating numbers really matters. It is becoming less of an issue in the biological sciences where there are so many women doing well, but for science, physical sciences, and mathematics this is a serious issue.
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Arthur Miller said, "Attention must be paid." This is important, it has been shown over and over, and over again, how important mentoring is at the undergraduate level. The institutions that do the best at encouraging women to enter careers in science are the small liberal arts colleges and the histori
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Imagine what it is like for a woman on the first day of a Computer Science 101 class. She is sitting in a room full of young men who have been programming since they were 12, spending their entire lives in their bedrooms playing computer games, and who can probably teach the class.
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