Editorial:
From LiveScience [1]:
Overall, women in these fields, collectively known as STEM, for science, technology, engineering and mathematics [2], are staying in these positions at the same rate as men, according to work done by Deborah Kaminski of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Cheryl Geisler of Simon Fraser University.
"This is really good news, it means if we hire them we are going to be able to keep them," Kaminski said in a podcast released by the journal Science, in which the study appears. The two also found that men and women receive promotions at about the same times.
In these fields overall, half of faculty will have departed within 10.9 years of their careers [3]. One discipline bucks the overall trend, however. In mathematics, half of women leave by 4.45 years, and half of male faculty by 7.33 years into their careers, the study found. (A study released this week found that due to the demands of a professorship, many women choose motherhood [4] over academics in math [3] and science fields.)
Source:
LiveScience
URL:
http://www.livescience.com/18517-women-stem-faculty-retention.html
Date:
March 14, 2012
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