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Statistics - USA
The percentage of female graduate students in engineering in 2001 was 20%.[1] Doctoral degrees awarded to women in engineering increased from 11.6% to 17.6% of total degrees awarded between 1995 and 2004.[2] The workforce remains as the area of highest under representation for women; only 11% of the engineering workforce in 2003 were women.[3]
See also
- Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal, where women were targeted by a mass murderer because they were female engineering students
- List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in engineering
- Women in Computing
- Women in science
- Women in the workforce
References
- ^ Data on Women in S&E p. 4, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.
- ^ Table 2. Doctorates awarded to women, by field of study: 1995–2004 in S&E Doctorate Awards: 2004, National Science Foundation.
- ^ TABLE H-5. Employed scientists and engineers, by occupation, highest degree level, and sex: 2006 in Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering (January 2009), National Science Foundation.
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