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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: Education
Source
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 Analysis
Discussion
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
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