CRAW Statistics on Women in CS&E
A project conceived by the Committee on the Status of Women
(CRAW) of
the Computer Research Association
(CRA).
Page maintained by Joseph O'Rourke.
This page is woefully out of date, and I cannot guarantee when I will
next update it. Use at your own risk in the meantime.
Women in CS&E Pipeline, 1994:
Percentages:
|
Gender
|
Bachelor's
|
Master's
|
Ph.D.
|
Assistant
|
Associate
|
Full
|
|
Men
|
82%
|
81%
|
84%
|
82%
|
91%
|
95%
|
|
Women
|
18%
|
19%
|
16%
|
18%
|
9%
|
5%
|
Absolute Numbers:
|
Gender
|
Bachelor's
|
Master's
|
Ph.D.
|
Assistant
|
Associate
|
Full
|
|
Men
|
6742
|
4188
|
848
|
614
|
982
|
1157
|
|
Women
|
1474
|
991
|
157
|
137
|
102
|
59
|
G. R. Andrews,
"1994 CRA Taulbee Survey."
Computing Research News
,
7(2) 6, Mar. 1995.
Cited in J. O'Rourke, "Mentor project passes muster,"
Computing Research News
,
7(4) 12, Sept. 1995.
CS Ph.D.s by gender since 1970: [not finished]
|
Year
|
Ph.D.s
|
Male
|
Male%
|
Female
|
Female%
|
|
1970
|
112
|
111
|
99%
|
1
|
1%
|
|
1971
|
124
|
120
|
97%
|
4
|
3%
|
|
1972
|
206
|
194
|
94%
|
12
|
6%
|
"1992-93 CRA Taulbee Survey."
Computing Research News
,
6(1) p.12, Jan. 1994, Table 6.
Factoids:
- Calculus Advanced Placement exam:
taken by 10,000 (62%) boys and 6,000 (38%) girls in 1993.
J. Gross,
The New York Times
,
Nov. 20, 1993.
Cited in
P. Kegel-Flom,
"For girls and women only...?"
AWIS Magazine
,
24(5) 2 (1995).
- "By high school only 29% of girls compared to 52% of boys [in 1991]
think they would enjoy being scientists."
Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America
,
Amer. Assoc. Univ. Women,
Washington, D.C., 1991.
Cited in
P. Kegel-Flom,
"For girls and women only...?"
AWIS Magazine
,
24(5) 2 (1995).
- Number of women on programming teams at the
ACM Regional Programming Contest,
Western New England College, Oct. 21, 1995:
6 (12%); number of men: 45 (88%). The six women represented
two women's colleges, Smith and Wellesley. The other 15 teams
were entirely male.
- Percentage of physical science and engineering Ph.D.s awarded to women
over three decades:
|
Year
|
1960
|
1970
|
1980
|
1990
|
|
Physical Sciences
|
3.5%
|
5.7%
|
12.2%
|
20%
|
|
Engineering
|
0.4%
|
0.4%
|
3.6%
|
8%
|
N. R. Sharpe,
"Sisters spell success in science,"
AWIS Magazine
,
24(5) 12 (1995).
- Percentage of Ph.D.s in Mathematics awarded to women, 1994-95: 23%.
(Comparable figure in Computer Science: 16%.)
|
Men |
Women |
Total |
| Number |
945 |
281 |
1226 |
| Percent |
77% |
23% |
100% |
Percentage of women among U.S. citizen doctoral recipients in Mathematics
in 1994-95: 25%.
(Comparable figure in Computer Science: ?).
J. D. Fulton,
"AMS-IMS-MAA Annual Survey,"
Notices of the AMS,
42(12) Dec. 1995, p.1510, Table 4A.
Gender of Professors at Selected Academic Departments (1995)
Anyone who would like their department's statistics to appear
here, please send me email
(orourke@cs.smith.edu).
| School |
Dept. |
Full Profs. |
Assoc. Profs. |
Assist. Profs. |
Res. Assocs. |
Total Percent |
| M |
F |
M |
F |
M |
F |
M |
F |
M |
F |
| Purdue |
EE+CE |
34 |
1 |
20 |
0 |
11 |
4 |
9 |
0 |
94% |
6% |
| Purdue |
CE |
10 |
1 |
6 |
0 |
7 |
2 |
3 |
0 |
90% |
10% |
| UPenn |
CIS |
8 |
2 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
76% |
24% |
| Wisconsin |
CS |
21 |
1 |
12 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
88% |
12% |
| Oregon |
CS |
4 |
0 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
73% |
27% |
| UMinn@Morris |
CS |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
67% |
30% |
| Smith |
CS |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
60% |
40% |
Statistics on
CRA page.