Personnel Needs and Training for Biomedical and Behavioral Research Volume 1 (1977) / Chapter Skim
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8 Minorities and Women
8 Minorities and Women
Pages 170-176
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numbers for groups other than blacks have always been quite smaQ I, the anal yses that follow do not attempt to dif f erentiate among the various minorities, excep+ in cases for which the observed dif ferences are especially large. However, the Committee ads aware that each m nority group may have had a different experience in graduate science education.
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It is also an area in which it is possible for individuals Lo earn a living in their profession whi le obtaining graduate degrees. This may be a particular concern for many minority members who can ess afford the costs associated with graduate education.
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Of those with employment plans, similar proportions of whites and minorities reported these commitments to be in the area of the doctoral degree (Appendix J91. In the biomedical sciences, a slightly higher percentage of minority than white doctorate recipients had such plans, and in the behavioral sciences the proportion was slightly smaller for minority individuals.
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, and (2) special effort be made by each agency ~ o encourage qualified minority applicants to undertake postdoctora ~ training by establishing a special postdoctoral fellowship program targeted to minorities.
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This evaluation is more an accurate reflection of the general employment situation of women than of their recent training experience. Following recei pt of the degree, women with biomedical and behavioral science doctorates spent less time than men in full-tire employment and more time than men in part-time work, in seeking employment, and in postdoctoral study (Appendixes B' and E1.
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The Committee does not believe that any specific recommendations concerning the support of women under the NRSA program is necessary except for that rooted in Chapter 9 concerning payback provisions by women who must interrupt their training because of pregnancy. The Committee does urge that academic departments continue to recognize some of the disparities noted in this report and give greater emphasis to providing teaching and research assistantship opportunities to women in the future.
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2. Although data on the number of women earning doctorate s are ava-' ~ able as far back as 1920, figures we'= reported only for the last ~ 0 years, since this is the period in which the greatest increase has occurred.
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