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Women equal in science and engineering?
Despite Title IX and countless programs to increase the number of women in math, science and engineering, women remain underrepresented in the fields.
Marcia Greenberger, co-president of the National Women's Law Center, told a Senate hearing on the enforcement of Title IX that data showed the percentage of women getting the degrees peaked at 37% in 1984, but has been dwindling since then, reaching 28% in 1999-2000.
Women testifying at the hearing suggested schools do more to support women, including: increase scholarships for female grad students, make environments more supportive for women, create better work-family policies, and extend time for earning tenure so it does not have to occur during prime child-bearing years.
Currently only 20% of undergraduate engineering students are women, compared with women being 51% of medical students and 49% of law students, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle on October 13, 2002.
The report said the Southern Methodist University school of ...
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