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WOMEN AND MINORITIES IN THE S&E WORKFORCE
- Women, blacks, and Hispanics are underrepresented in the engineering workforce and some of the physical sciences, e.g., physics and geology. Some progress has been made, however, over the past decade.
Between 1983 and 1992, the percentage of women in the engineering workforce increased from 5.9 percent to 8.7 percent, the percentage of blacks increased from 2.6 percent to 4.0 percent, and the percentage of Hispanics increased from 2.2 percent to
3.1 percent. (For more information see:
Special Populations in the S&E Workforce.)
- Women comprised 18.8 percent of the doctoral S&E workforce in 1991. While women are well represented in psychology and fairly well represented in the social and life sciences, they accounted for only 3.4 percent of all doctoral engineers
in 1991. (For more information see: Women.)
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