I decided to combine tables 6 & 9 from the report noted in the previous post (as it was PDF I assume many readers didn’t follow the link). These tables deal with:
1) The percentage of women in a given subfield (all)2) The percentage of each race/ethnic group in a given subfield (U.S. citizens only)
With the proviso above that one data set includes non-citizens while the other does not, here is the correlation between sex (female) and each race in terms of their representation in the various fields:
-0.67 Asian0.59 Black0.32 Hispanic0.36 Indian-0.20 White0.07 Other
You can double check me by downloading the excel file yourself. The only major thing that surprised me was that there are very few women in History (40%) compared to English, etc. (59%).
Field
% of Women (all
U.S. citizens who declared their race/ethnic group
Asian
Black
Hispanic
Indian
White
Other
All
Physics & astronomy
16.3%
48
18
21
2
513
10
612
Chemistry
33.6%
73
41
35
5
950
11
1115
Earth, atmospheric, & marine sciences
31.4%
10
5
13
0
422
9
459
Mathematics
28.9%
19
13
11
3
352
7
405
Computer science
20.8%
50
17
13
1
267
2
350
Engineering
17.5%
248
77
86
7
1392
22
1832
Biological sciences
44.7%
372
112
157
12
3023
47
3723
Health sciences
68.2%
55
66
29
3
940
12
1105
Agricultural sciences
30.8%
12
9
17
2
373
3
416
Psychology
66.8%
104
164
179
15
2186
36
2684
Anthropology
58.4%
10
21
22
6
306
8
373
Economics
27.7%
24
12
12
0
279
1
328
Political science/international relates
41.6%
16
36
27
2
412
5
498
Sociology
61.1%
17
41
21
7
334
10
430
Other social sciences
46.1%
23
41
20
2
406
6
498
History
39.9%
25
40
34
3
732
9
843
English language & literature
58.9%
25
45
28
5
688
17
808
Foreign language & literature
60.4%
13
10
82
2
311
1
419
Other humanities
49.0%
74
70
70
12
1718
43
1987
Teacher education
69.7%
4
21
9
3
167
1
205
Teacher fields
63.8%
9
50
20
2
407
7
495
Other eduation
66.3%
85
593
280
41
3416
60
4475
Business & management
38.2%
27
54
21
4
472
6
584
Communications
58.6%
5
30
10
0
219
6
270
Other professional fields
50.3%
16
57
15
7
424
4
523
Other fields
65.3%
0
1
1
0
11
0
13
Physics & astronomy
7.8%
2.9%
3.4%
0.3%
83.8%
1.6%
Chemistry
6.5%
3.7%
3.1%
0.4%
85.2%
1.0%
Earth, atmospheric, & marine sciences
2.2%
1.1%
2.8%
0.0%
91.9%
2.0%
Mathematics
4.7%
3.2%
2.7%
0.7%
86.9%
1.7%
Computer science
14.3%
4.9%
3.7%
0.3%
76.3%
0.6%
Engineering
13.5%
4.2%
4.7%
0.4%
76.0%
1.2%
Biological sciences
10.0%
3.0%
4.2%
0.3%
81.2%
1.3%
Health sciences
5.0%
6.0%
2.6%
0.3%
85.1%
1.1%
Agricultural sciences
2.9%
2.2%
4.1%
0.5%
89.7%
0.7%
Psychology
3.9%
6.1%
6.7%
0.6%
81.4%
1.3%
Anthropology
2.7%
5.6%
5.9%
1.6%
82.0%
2.1%
Economics
7.3%
3.7%
3.7%
0.0%
85.1%
0.3%
Political science/international relates
3.2%
7.2%
5.4%
0.4%
82.7%
1.0%
Sociology
4.0%
9.5%
4.9%
1.6%
77.7%
2.3%
Other social sciences
4.6%
8.2%
4.0%
0.4%
81.5%
1.2%
History
3.0%
4.7%
4.0%
0.4%
86.8%
1.1%
English language & literature
3.1%
5.6%
3.5%
0.6%
85.1%
2.1%
Foreign language & literature
3.1%
2.4%
19.6%
0.5%
74.2%
0.2%
Other humanities
3.7%
3.5%
3.5%
0.6%
86.5%
2.2%
Teacher education
2.0%
10.2%
4.4%
1.5%
81.5%
0.5%
Teacher fields
1.8%
10.1%
4.0%
0.4%
82.2%
1.4%
Other eduation
1.9%
13.3%
6.3%
0.9%
76.3%
1.3%
Business & management
4.6%
9.2%
3.6%
0.7%
80.8%
1.0%
Communications
1.9%
11.1%
3.7%
0.0%
81.1%
2.2%
Other professional fields
3.1%
10.9%
2.9%
1.3%
81.1%
0.8%
Other fields
0.0%
7.7%
7.7%
0.0%
84.6%
0.0%
Posted by razib at 03:46 PM