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SUBMITTER: RissleR LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7498325 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
RissleR Leslie J LJ Hale Katherine L KL Joffe Nina R NR Caruso Nicholas M NM
Bioscience 20200729 9
There has been great growth in women's participation in the US academic doctoral workforce, but underrepresentation remains in all science and engineering fields, especially at high academic ranks. We obtained estimates of the numbers of professorial women and men in fields likely to seek funding from the National Science Foundation and aligned those numbers with each of six research directorates to investigate temporal trends in submission patterns. We found that women are as likely to be funde ...[more]