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3 Panel II - Focal Disciplines
3 Panel II - Focal Disciplines
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Crank noted that European women earned roughly half of the graduate degrees compared with approximately 40 percent of women in the United States. He found gender differences in subdisciplines, females being more likely than males to be in statistics.
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These data showed no significant differences among the three countries: women earned 40-50 percent of the undergraduate degrees and approximately 40 percent of the doctoral degrees. However, looking at women faculty, the percentages dropped to 11 and 12 percent for Germany and the United Kingdom, respectively.
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Also, data on program outcomes are sparse; in Germany, for example, there are many industrial sector programs Robert Lichter between employers and unions that are intended to promote women in chemistry. At the time of the workshop, Lichter and his colleagues had been unable to obtain information on outcomes of these initiatives, which prompted Lichter and his coauthors to expand their data collection efforts to other countries, examining cross-national similarities and differences within chemical sciences compared to other disciplines.
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Women's Representation in Computing Varies across Countries SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Education Database. "Computer Science: Cross-National View of Entry Degree and IT Workforce in Selected Countries," presented by Joanne Cohoon at the Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context Workshop.
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"Computer Science: Cross-National View of Entry Degree and IT Workforce in Selected Countries," presented by Joanne Cohoon at the Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context Workshop. Turning to the workplace, Cohoon described the participation of women in the computing workforce in Brazil, India, Spain, and the United States.
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SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development data in "Computer Science: Cross-National View of Entry Degree and IT Workforce in Selected Countries," presented by Joanne Cohoon at the Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context Workshop. Similar data for Brazil in 2006 indicated that women comprised 20 percent of the computing workforce compared with their overall workforce participation of 42 percent -- and 43 percent at the executive position level.
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Figure 3-4 shows the percentage of women among overall graduate degree recipients in all fields and among students enrolled in graduate programs in mathematics and statistics in the United States compared with the EU-27. In the EU-27, the percentage of female degree recipients is consistently higher than that of women enrolled in mathematics and statistics.
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were awarded to women. He speculated that this finding may explain the higher percentage of females awarded graduate degrees in mathematics in Europe, where EU-27 countries as a whole might produce a higher percentage of statistics degrees than the United States.
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Group IV contains doctoral programs in statistics, biostatistics, and biometrics. Group V contains doctoral programs in applied mathematics and applied science.
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Crank then turned the presentation over to Daubechies, who discussed the International Mathematical Union's concerns with mathematics education at all levels and its interest in recruiting young people, particularly women, to the field at an earlier age. Daubechies was the director of a program for women in mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, which has a number of initiatives intended to improve the situation for women in the field.
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He pointed out that young chemical scientists regularly traverse geographic boundaries and that increasingly the country of citizenship, birth, and residence are easily confounded. The ACS International Experiences for Undergraduates, for example, takes students from the United States for a 10-week experience in Europe.
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The NSF's Survey of Doctorate Recipients is a longitudinal component of SESTAT and provides data over time about scientists and engineers who hold doctoral degrees from U.S. colleges and universities.
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Discussion Following Panel Discussion Zakya Kafafi of NSF commented on the metrics cited during Daubechies' presentation, in which she showed data from the Association for Women in Mathematics. Although the Institute for Advanced Study started in 1994, the data shown were only from 2000 and 2006; Kafafi added it would be interesting to follow the careers of women to best monitor their progress.
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