{"id":57665,"date":"2014-09-14T09:47:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57665"},"modified":"2014-09-14T09:47:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T17:47:37","slug":"which-are-the-female-dominated-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=57665","title":{"rendered":"Which Are The Female-Dominated Majors?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Report<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Today’s trends<\/h3>\n

The woman-dominated majors of today are unsurprising to anyone who has attended a large university in the U.S.:<\/p>\n

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  1. Health Professions (85% women): nursing assistant, veterinary assistant, dental assistant, etc.<\/li>\n
  2. Public Administration (82%): social work, public policy, etc.<\/li>\n
  3. Education (79%): pre-K, K-12, higher education, etc.<\/li>\n
  4. Psychology (77%): cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Surprisingly to me, most of the STEM<\/a> majors aren’t doing as bad gender disparity-wise as I expected. 40-45% of the degrees in Math, Statistics, and the Physical Sciences were conferred to women in 2012. Even better, a majority of Biology degrees in 2012 (58%) were earned by women. This data tells me that we don’t really have a STEM gender gap in the U.S.: we have an ET gender gap<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

    This ET gender gap has severe consequences. Computer Science and Engineering majors have stagnated at less than 10%<\/a> of all degrees conferred in the U.S. for the past decade, while the demand for employees with programming and engineering skills continue to outpace the supply<\/a> every year. Compare this to more woman-dominated majors such as Business and Health Professions, which comprise 1\/3 of all college degrees in 2012 when combined.<\/p>\n

    Provided that far more women attend college than men<\/a>, it seems the best way to meet the U.S.’s growing need for skilled programmers and engineers is to focus on recruiting more women — of any race or ethnicity — into Computer Science and Engineering majors. The big question, of course, is “How?” With the constant issues of subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) discrimination against women<\/a> in these male-dominated majors, we have quite a tough task on our hands.<\/p>\n

    Looking at the historical trends, maybe we have something to learn from Architecture and the Physical Sciences, given that they were in our position only 40 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Report: Today’s trends The woman-dominated majors of today are unsurprising to anyone who has attended a large university in the U.S.: Health Professions (85% women): nursing assistant, veterinary assistant, dental assistant, etc. Public Administration (82%): social work, public policy, etc. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t