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STScI/CSWA Survey Results 1992-2003 |
compiled for the Web by Jennifer L. Hoffman
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This page compiles the results of the 1992 and 1999 STScI surveys and the
2003 CSWA survey of
the gender distribution of astronomers at major U.S. research institutions.
For statistics from other studies, see my Women in Astronomy Statistics page.
The data presented here were collected and submitted by representatives of the institutions surveyed;
2003 data are current as of May 2003. We asked for numbers of men and women at
the following career ranks: graduate student, postdoc, assistant professor
(faculty), assistant professor (research), associate professor (faculty),
associate professor (research), full professor (faculty), and full professor
(research). In cases of combined physics and astronomy departments, we asked
for data representing astronomers only. Decisions regarding precisely whom
to include and how to classify them were made by the institutions themselves.
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I assisted
Karen Kwitter
and the CSWA in conducting the 2003
survey, compiling the responses, and analyzing the resulting data along with
those from the previous surveys. Below are the raw data, along with links to their
published reports. The 1992 and 1999 data were passed to me by the CSWA,
and I present them here unchanged except for alphabetical rearrangement. I tabulated the 2003 data; in this table,
"P" and "PA" represent physics and physics/astronomy departments, respectively. I also compiled the combined table,
which shows the results of all three surveys sorted by institution. Here, I have added the numbers of "research" and
"faculty" professors at each rank (again, these distinctions were made by the individual institutions) for simplicity
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Women in Astronomy II conference in Pasadena in June 2003.
I am no longer sure that the breakdowns of the 1992 and 1999 data into "research" and "faculty" professors (to which
I refer in the poster) are reliable; therefore, I have not publicized these breakdowns in the tables above.
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WiA II poster:
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Postscript
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contact me with questions or
comments about the 2003 survey or the analyses presented on this page. |
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Women in Astronomy Statistics
Last updated July 19, 2004.
Please send comments and additions to
jhoffman at astro.berkeley.edu.
Border from Horae, Westminster (Wynken de Worde), ca. 1494,
courtesy of the Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection.
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