Sentences with phrase «number of women in science»

Over the past 40 years, however, society has gradually begun to accept, if not embrace, the notion of the female biologist, mathematician or engineer, and the number of women in science at all levels has increased dramatically.

There are a handful of other things schools can do to boost the number of women in science and math professorships, Shaywitz says.

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WOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggWOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggestIN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suSCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggestin science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suscience - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggwomen, a new study suggests.

Sexual harassment thrives when there are unequal numbers of men and women in a field and when there is a strong hierarchy of power within the profession, Urry said, noting that both conditions are prevalent in science and engineering fields and in academia.

The Athena Project, which is a UK - wide initiative that aims to increase the number of women working in science, engineering, and technology (SET) at all levels of higher education (HE), and to improve their career development, awards development grants to HE institutions for pilot projects that address those aims.

In August, for example, the journal Science printed a study showing that increasingly large numbers of women have been earning doctoral degrees in virtually every scientific discipline for many years but are still not proportionally represented on university facultieIn August, for example, the journal Science printed a study showing that increasingly large numbers of women have been earning doctoral degrees in virtually every scientific discipline for many years but are still not proportionally represented on university facultiein virtually every scientific discipline for many years but are still not proportionally represented on university faculties.

The aim is to «increase the number of women in leading positions» in academe, government, industry, nonprofit organizations, and elsewhere by «rais [ing] the visibility» of outstanding women, said Ingrid Wünning Tschol, senior vice president for health and science at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in a speech to the first European Conference for Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 2science at the Robert Bosch Stiftung, in a speech to the first European Conference for Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 2Science Journalists at the Euroscience Open Forum on 22 July.

For many years, academicians blamed a nearly empty «pipeline» for the low numbers of women seeking faculty positions in U.S. universities and for the fact that women hold far fewer tenured full professorships than men at U.S. universities, particularly in the sciences.

In spite of increasing numbers of U.S. minorities in grades K - 12, racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with disabilities are not replacing the potential workforce shortfall in the scienceIn spite of increasing numbers of U.S. minorities in grades K - 12, racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with disabilities are not replacing the potential workforce shortfall in the sciencein grades K - 12, racial and ethnic minorities, women, and people with disabilities are not replacing the potential workforce shortfall in the sciencein the sciences.

This phenomenon needs to be understood by individuals, academic institutions, companies, and federal agencies who claim that they want to see the numbers of women and minorities going into science and engineering careers increase, because unfortunately «stereotype threat» is alive and well in the scientific community.

What is needed in order to increase the numbers of underrepresented minorities in science, engineering, and technological fields is a push for a new and concrete plan of action, with mandatory implementation guidelines, adopted at the national level which focuses on transitioning women and underrepresented minorities into positions of power.

The number of women in that group was one - third of what one would expect based on female representation in the life sciences (the field that accounts for the overwhelming majority of ORI cases).

Yellowlees is dismayed at the number of women leaving careers in science.

Today, Aragon is one of a very small number of Latino women working in computer science.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

Whereas the ETAN report «didn't find any outstanding universities getting things right,» and the Helsinki Group turned up «no individual countries that stood out» as being especially conducive to women's involvement in science and engineering, looking at the private sector, there are a number of companies that are «on the path of changing their organisation and culture,» notes Rees.

This first - of - its kind policy is seen as one way to help boost the number of tenured women in science and engineering departments.

The quietest trend within undergraduate science and engineering is the sustained growth in the number of women earning B.S. degrees (top).

Some of the statistical gains by women are due to a shrinking male population: The number of white men who earned science, engineering, and health Ph.D. s in 2000 was 15 % lower than 20 years ago.

In a survey of AAAS members, an overwhelming number of women said that they knew of people who had left the sciences because they had trouble integrating their life and their science.

Women account for 50 % of university graduates; in life sciences they exceed the number of men.

HMC's gains in the number of women mirror gains in the number of women on science faculties nationally.

Despite being a minority of math and science faculty overall, the number of women in the academic ranks is on the rise.

She applauds the growing number of black women in her field and her company's approach to advocating diversity: it funds teacher training to help get kids excited about science early on.

Studies show that women are significantly underrepresented in the IT field, and the number of women who've graduated with degrees in computer and information science have plummeted from 37 percent in 1985 to 18 percent in 2011.

One positive trend: The number of women and minorities receiving Ph.D.'s in science and engineering is on the rise.

Even with the ever - growing awareness toward problems concerning women in science, a number of challenges still plague female graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty.

Today the number of new U.S. university students choosing careers in science and engineering is barely holding steady, despite the ever - increasing percentage of women selecting careers in science.

The AAAS Mentor Award honors AAAS members who have mentored significant numbers of underrepresented students, including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities, pursuing Ph.D.'s in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and who have demonstrated scholarship, activism, and community building on behalf of underrepresented groups in STEM fields.

And indeed, since 1994, the number of women faculty in the school of science has grown more than 50 %, from 22 to 34, as the number of men dropped from 252 to 222.

In truth, women are doing well in science: since 1970, the number of doctorates awarded to women in the US has increased five-fold.In truth, women are doing well in science: since 1970, the number of doctorates awarded to women in the US has increased five-fold.in science: since 1970, the number of doctorates awarded to women in the US has increased five-fold.in the US has increased five-fold...

When you start to examine the numbers closely it makes you stop and think... In the US women hold less than 25 % of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) related jobs.

We reach them with information about the opportunity to mentor women studying engineering or related sciences in a number of ways:

Schools should help boost the number of women, minorities, and handicapped people in those fields by requiring four years each of math and science for high - school graduation and providing a math and science specialist in every elementary school, according to a report issued by the panel last month.

There's no doubt that the Stemettes are challenging a real societal problem — the declining numbers of women working in Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths (STEM) fields.

Introducing Saujani, HGSE dean James Ryan (whose own 2016 commencement address went viral, leading, this spring, to a book), told the audience that in 1984, 37 percent of all computer - science graduates were women; this year that number is 18 percent.

This exposure can happen through assigned biographical readings about women scientists, mathematicians, or engineers; calling attention to current events highlighting the achievements of women in math and science; and by making students aware of the number of women who receive advanced degrees in math and science fields each year.

Ms. Raeford is involved with SECME, a national group that seeks to increase the number of underrepresented groups — minorities and women — who pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

Since the dot - com boom in 2000, the percentage of women graduating in computer science declined and never really picked back up despite the increasing number of computer science graduates.