> (1) your data here contrasts 180 w/the report issued yesterday -- if you're
> saying 2/3 of your current MIS students are Female. isn't that what you are
> saying? or are you talking the entire student body? if so, what % of MIS
> students are female.
The entire student body. Not sure about MIS students - I can't get the
data from our student records system, believe it or not (grrr... - it's
being replaced). I suspect about 1/2 our students are female, but that's
at the u/g and masters levels, not Ph.D.
Also, MIS != computer science. MIS is mostly business, with a bit of
technology. It's a smaller field, in terms of number of students, but an
increasingly popular choice. Our programs at Oakland University (in
MICHIGAN, not CAL) have been growing, and others around the country are as
well from people I talk to at conferences, but I don't know how this fits
into 'technology' figures overall.
> (2) hiring women PhDs. I've talked to a few women w/PhDs in the sciences,
> who are not in a university environment. Why did they make this decision? a)
> they didn't want to sit around on their hands and wait for tenured white
> males to retire so they could get tenure, b) they got better offers and/or
> challenges outside academia, c) they changed fields.
There is some truth there. Jobs in some fields open up only when someone
retires. MIS is not that way right now, given recent growth, but it may
not last. And, although being a professor can be fun and secure (once you
get tenure), there are other fun things as well.
> the problem in hiring current PhDs that are female is a reflection, i think,
> of what tamra, suz and I have written -- the attitudes etc. from the 60s and
> 70s.
Yes, you're probably right.
Kieran
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