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Linda Head Rowan University Electrical & Computer Engineering

Considering Women in Male Dominated Professions: Implications for Increasing the Numbers of Women in Engineering. Linda Head Rowan University Electrical & Computer Engineering. Very Interesting Statistics.

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Linda Head Rowan University Electrical & Computer Engineering

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  1. Considering Women in Male Dominated Professions:Implications for Increasing the Numbers of Women in Engineering Linda Head Rowan University Electrical & Computer Engineering

  2. Very Interesting Statistics V. G. Drachman, Sisters in Law, Women Lawyers in Modern American History, Harvard, 1998, p 254.

  3. Statistics from the AMA

  4. 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/wimmonth2006pp.pdf

  5. Women in Law 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/index.html

  6. Earned Engineering Bachelor’s Degrees - % Female

  7. Employed Engineers - % Female

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