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Position on the U.S. Science & Engineering Workforce
Position on the U.S. Science & Engineering Workforce
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iAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, American Geological Institute, American Institute of Biological Sciences, American Institute of Physics, American Psychological Association, Policy Committee for Mathematics (later renamed the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences) , and the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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lob openings for physical scientists, life scientists, and engineers are also expected to show substantial growth of 44 percent, 18 percent, and 9 percent, respectively.3 Accompanying this increased demand are changes in the composition: · Traditionally, in the U.S., the majority of the S&E workforce has been white, non-Hispanic men, but that is changing. The proportion of 2Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology, Professional Women and Minorities A Complete Human Resources Data Compendium, July 2002.
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During the decade of the l990s, underrepresented minorities increased their proportion of S&E degrees from 10 to 16 percent at the bachelor's level, from 6 to 9 percent at the master's level, and from 4 to 6 percent at the doctoral level.5 But, despite these gains, their representation in the S&E workforce continues to be small. · Women have increased their proportion of the degrees earned in S&E at every level so that, by 2000, they earned over 50 percent of the bachelor's, 43 percent of the master's, and 36 percent of the doctorates.6 Can this kind of dramatic growth be expected to continue when there are signs of plateaus being reached in some fields such as engineering?
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ACTION STEPS Since its incorporation, the Commission has worked toward the recruitment, retention, and utilization of all students and practitioners in science and engineering. It specifically urges that all the stakeholderseducational institutions at all levels, businesses, government agencies, professional societies, policymakers, and individuals work together to effect systemic changes that would accomplish the following: · Provide a pre-college education (K-12)
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Vetter, the former executive director of the Commission, in addressing how to change the barriers, noted, "If employers wanted them changed, if the government wanted them changed, if academic administrators or faculties wanted them changed," no matter how entrenched the patterns,7 the barriers would be changed. Working together, all the stakeholders can make things change.
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