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September 2001

Closing Gender Gap in the Sciences

Women’s gains have stalled and in some cases eroded in engineering and computer science, despite effective new programs to increase women’s participation in these fields, according to a major new report released recently by the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW).

The report, entitled Balancing the Equation: Where are Women and Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology? notes myriad reasons to advance women in the sciences, including the economic imperative to increase the technological and scientific literacy of America’s workforce. The report also finds important the perspective women bring to the sciences, often leading them to different decisions on allocating research dollars, targeting drug testing protocols, and developing technology to benefit communities.

“This is a critical moment for the nation,” said NCRW Executive Director Linda Basch. “In the last few decades, we have learned how to increase women’s and girls’ participation in science and technology. Now we need to use that knowledge. This report offers cause for cautious optimism. We simply cannot continue to overlook the contributions of half our population. If we do, our society, our nation and our world will suffer.”

The report analyzes strategies to attract women and girls to science and retain them in technological fields. It finds that efforts to open up scientific study and work have created new opportunities for women and minorities, but these efforts have been sporadic and disjointed. The report calls for a national commitment to remove the persistent barriers and glass ceiling facing women and girls in the sciences.

The report reviews hundreds of programs that successfully increase the classroom, laboratory and workplace participation of girls, women and minorities in the sciences. It finds that women and girls excel in environments that encourage hands-on research, including mentoring and role models, and link science, technology and engineering to other disciplines.

The report found that:

–In 1996 women constituted 45 percent of the workforce in the US, but just 12 percent of science and engineering jobs in business and industry.

–In 1999, 56 percent of Advanced Placement takers were female, but 90 percent of computer science test takers and 78 percent of physics test takers were male.

–Less than 10 percent of full professors in the sciences today are women, despite the fact that women have been earning more than one-quarter of the Ph.Ds in science for 30 years.

Balancing the Equation calls for systematic change and a long-term commitment by top leaders at all levels to advancing women in the sciences, beginning in kindergarten and continuing through women’s careers. Each chapter concludes with recommendations for specific action steps to advance women and girls in science and technology

The National Council for Research on Women is a working alliance of 95 university-based research centers, national policy organizations, and education coalitions.

Copies of Balancing the Equation are available for $22.00 plus $4.50 postage and handling from NCRW, 11 Hanover Square, 20th floor, New York, NY 10005. Call NCRW at 212-785-7335.

 

 

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