Posted by Orin Kerr:
Gender and Academia -- Some Data from The Physics Field:
[1]Inside Higher Ed has a story on a new report about women in physics
teaching:
Physics is among the most male-dominated of disciplines. And
while commentators bandy about many possible causes �
discrimination, the lifestyle tradeoffs required by graduate school
or the academic workplace, and, controversially, innate aptitude �
the problem seems most directly attributable to female students
abandoning physics in droves between high school and college.
So concludes a report issued by the American Institute of
Physics, which found that the relatively small proportion of female
faculty members in the field occurs not because of a �leaking�
pipeline within academe, but because of the small proportion of
women who choose to study physics after 12th grade.
The report is available [2]here.
References
1. http://www.insidehighered.com/careers/2005/03/23/physics
2. http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/reports/women05.pdf
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