Considering Women in Male Dominated Professions: Implications for Increasing the Numbers of Women in Engineering

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Considering Women in Male Dominated
ProfessionsImplications for Increasing the
Numbers of Women in Engineering

• Linda Head
• Rowan University
• Electrical Computer Engineering

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Very Interesting Statistics
Women as a Percentage of Male-dominated Professions Women as a Percentage of Male-dominated Professions Women as a Percentage of Male-dominated Professions Women as a Percentage of Male-dominated Professions Women as a Percentage of Male-dominated Professions
Profession Year Year Year Year
Profession 1910 1920 1930 1940
Lawyer 1.1 1.4 2.1 2.4
Doctor 6.0 5.0 4.4 4.6
Scientist n.a. 4.7 5.8 7.0
V. G. Drachman, Sisters in Law, Women Lawyers in
Modern American History, Harvard, 1998, p 254.
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Statistics from the AMA
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Today 27 of physicians are females compared
to 17 in 1990 12 in 1980 The most
dramatic growth almost 50 of first-year
enrollees in medical school are women.
http//www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/19/wimm
onth2006pp.pdf
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Women in Law
Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980 Proportion of Women in the Profession of Law, 1910-1980
1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1976 1980
1.1 1.4 2.1 2.4 3.5 3.3 4.7 9.2 12.0
C.F.Epstein, Women in Law,Illinois, 1993, p 4.
JD DEGREES 1982 1987 1992 1997 2002
2006 TO WOMEN 33 40 42.7 43.8 48.3
48.1
http//www.eeoc.gov/stats/reports/diversitylaw/ind
ex.html
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Earned Engineering Bachelors Degrees - Female
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Employed Engineers - Female