Percentage of Bachelor’s degrees conferred to women , by major (1970-2012) | Randal S. Olson
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Percentage of Bachelor’s degrees conferred to women, by major (1970-2012)
Posted on June 14, 2014 by Randy Olson
One oft-cited problem with Computer Science is its glaring gender disparity: In a given Computer Science class, men will outnumber women as much as 8 to 2 (20% women). This stands in stark contrast to most other college majors, which have women outnumbering men 3 to 2 on average (60% women). This observation made me wonder: Are other STEM majors suffering the same gender disparity?
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Percentage of Bachelor’s degrees conferred to men , by major (1970-2012) | Randal S. Olson
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The double-edged sword of gender equality
Posted on June 15, 2014 by Randy Olson — 18 Comments ↓
Yesterday, I charted the trends in Bachelor’s degrees conferred to women in the U.S. using the NCES 2013 Digest of Education Statistics, and found that there has been a glaring gender disparity in Computer Science and Engineering majors for more than 40 years. In that post, I focused on the gender disparity in CS&E, but my readers were quick to point out that there are also glaring gender disparities in favor of women in certain majors as well.
