- Mar 12, 2003
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CNN Link - White men dominate science posts
"""""OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (AP) -- White men still dominate university professorships at the nation's top science and engineering schools, even where many of the doctoral students are women and minorities, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.
Women hold between 3 percent and 15 percent of full professorships in science and engineering at the schools surveyed, according to the report written by Donna J. Nelson, a University of Oklahoma chemistry professor who has written several studies on women and minorities in science.
As a result, women can earn their degrees without having a woman professor or even having access to a female faculty member, according to the survey.
"Women are less likely to go into and remain in science and engineering when they lack mentors and role models," the survey said. "When female professors are not hired, treated fairly and retained, female students perceive that they will be treated similarly."
In some instances, the percentage of female students far outweighs the proportion of professors of the same gender, the survey showed. For example, 48.2 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees in math were female, but only 8.3 percent of math professors were women.
Black, Hispanic and American Indian women have even fewer professorships than their white counterparts, according to the survey. For instance, it found no black, Hispanic or Indian women who were full professors at any of the top 50 computer science departments."'"""
Apparently racism in America has yet to be tackled in areas of higher learning, this is very discouraging news. :disgust:
"""""OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (AP) -- White men still dominate university professorships at the nation's top science and engineering schools, even where many of the doctoral students are women and minorities, according to the results of a survey released Thursday.
Women hold between 3 percent and 15 percent of full professorships in science and engineering at the schools surveyed, according to the report written by Donna J. Nelson, a University of Oklahoma chemistry professor who has written several studies on women and minorities in science.
As a result, women can earn their degrees without having a woman professor or even having access to a female faculty member, according to the survey.
"Women are less likely to go into and remain in science and engineering when they lack mentors and role models," the survey said. "When female professors are not hired, treated fairly and retained, female students perceive that they will be treated similarly."
In some instances, the percentage of female students far outweighs the proportion of professors of the same gender, the survey showed. For example, 48.2 percent of students earning bachelor's degrees in math were female, but only 8.3 percent of math professors were women.
Black, Hispanic and American Indian women have even fewer professorships than their white counterparts, according to the survey. For instance, it found no black, Hispanic or Indian women who were full professors at any of the top 50 computer science departments."'"""
Apparently racism in America has yet to be tackled in areas of higher learning, this is very discouraging news. :disgust:
Racism has undoubtedly played a PART, but the issue is complicated by other issues. Why, a talented black man might ask himself, would I teach chemistry at OSU for $50,000 a year (to pull an approximate number out of my butt), when I could practice law at a Wall Street law firm and earn $700,000 a year? College professors are, for the most part, woefully underpaid. Ditto for many very smart women. Women are going into law, dentistry and medicine in record numbers. I mean, if you are going to bust your hump, you might as well get paid for it AND get RESPECT.
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