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Since the 1990s, the persistence rate between Bachelor's Degrees and PhDs in pSTEM has had no gender difference. This is true across all major groups of STEM fields (i.e., engineering, life science, mathematics, and computer science, social science, and physical science).
Topic: EducationSource
Citation: The bachelor’s to Ph.D. STEM pipeline no longer leaks more women than men: a 30-year analysis, p. Author(s): Miller, Wai Institution(s): Northwestern University, Duke University Link: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00037/full Nation(s): United States Year(s): 2015 Source: Primary Type: Statistical AnalysisDiscussion
Other Notes:Persistence rate = percentage of students who earned a Ph.D. in a particular STEM field among students who had earlier received bachelor’s degrees in that same field