If you've been dying to know, it's your lucky day. All the hubbub over the Harvard President's recent gaffe has renewed public interest in the underrepresentation of women in the sciences. This website, which was created prior to the recent fracas, lets you look up fairly detailed demographic information on 150 research universities in the U.S. to see what percentage of their math and science faculty are women. The site is set up to send a letter for you to the University President of your choice, among other action-oriented things.
Did you know there was a GAO Report last year recommending that federal agencies need to do more to ensure compliance with Title IX (that's the one about sex discrimination being wrong and bad)?
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What I am interested in knowing is how this correlates with the percentage of women getting their PhDs in these sciences and what the gap is and understanding why they aren't being promoted to these positions. Sort of like how 50% of film school graduates are female, but only 10% get directing jobs (I think I'm rounding a bit there, but it's something like that). Obviously there's a great deal of institutional gender bias in EVERY field. Makes me wish I became an Electrical Engineer.
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