Women earn more than 50 percent of all bachelor's and master's degrees, and nearly 50
percent of all doctorates.
Not exact matches
From a standing start last year, the Society now has almost 400 members, 80
percent of whom hold a
doctorate in the natural sciences, the rest being primarily graduate students.
Eliminating town and city IDAs in favor
of one IDA per county would lower by 30
percent the value
of the property tax breaks being granted but would have «little effect» on where businesses choose to locate, according to Evan Mast, who studied New York's IDAs for his economics
doctorate from Stanford University.
Seventy - five
percent of African - American women who earned
doctorates in biology between 1975 and 1992 attended historically black colleges, most notably Spelman and Bennett — both women's colleges (Thom, 2001).
Vögler cites that with 2.4
percent of the German workforce holding
Doctorates, compared to an estimated 1.4
percent in the United States, «there is no general expectation to go into academia,» he says.
A disproportionate share
of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E
doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five
percent of African Americans and 23 %
of Hispanics receiving S&E
doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (
of either sex)
of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.
Female SEH
doctorate holders were less likely than their male counterparts to be employed full time in 2013 (72.7
percent of women, 77.5
percent of men) and more likely not to be seeking work (3.7
percent of women, 0.8
percent of men).
Statistics show that 25.5
percent of SEH doctoral degree holders in the labor force held a
doctorate in the biological, agricultural or environmental life sciences; 18.5
percent held
doctorates in engineering; 17.1
percent in physical sciences; 14.5
percent in psychology; 12.3
percent in social sciences; 4.6
percent in health; 4.5
percent in mathematics and statistics and 3
percent in computer and information sciences.
In 2003, among
Doctorate degree holders who received their degree four to six years previously, only 19.8
percent were in tenure - track or tenured positions at four - year institutions
of higher education.
Although the percentage
of doctorates awarded to women in life sciences increased from 15 to 52
percent between 1969 and 2009, only about a third
of assistant professors and less than a fifth
of full professors in biology - related fields in 2009 were female.
Unsurprisingly, 63
percent of the new
doctorate holders, including URM PhDs, reported leaving academia, degree in hand.
Hiring increases by degree level range from a low
of 12
percent for
doctorates to a high
of 40
percent for MBAs.
The percentage
of doctorate holders in nonacademic S&E occupations who are underrepresented minorities increased from 4.4
percent in 1990 to 6.1 in 2005, a substantial increase if it were not over a very small base.18 Myers and Turner concluded that market forces such as wages play a more prominent role in affecting faculty representation in the short run than pipeline factors designed to increase the supply
of minority faculty.19
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These disparities persist through higher education — in 2013, less than six
percent of math
doctorates were black or Latino.
Doctorate - degree holders, for example, for whom the median income is $ 117,684, roughly $ 17,000 less than the median for a professional degree - holder at $ 134,680, own homes at a rate
of 73.7
percent, below that
of professional degree - holders at 76
percent.
The Ohio Housing Finance Agency's «Grants for Grads» program provides discounted mortgage rates and down payment assistance
of up to 5
percent of a home's purchase price to recent graduates (those who have earned an associate's, bachelor's, master's or
doctorate degree within the last 48 months).