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From Scarcity to Visibility: Gender Differences in the Careers of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers.
Long, J. Scott, Ed. – 2001
This study documents the changes that have occurred in the representation of women in science and engineering and the characteristics of women scientists and engineers. Data from two National Science Foundation databases, the Survey of Earned Doctorates for New Ph.D.s and the Survey of Doctoral Recipients for the science & engineering doctoral…
Descriptors: Careers, Doctoral Degrees, Employment Patterns, Engineering
The PhD Factory: Training and Employment of Science and Engineering Doctorates in the United States.
Goldman, Charles A.; Massy, William F. – 2001
Based on new research exploring the training and employment of science and engineering PhDs in the United States, this book predicts that with constant future resources and with constant domestic employment outside academe, academic departments will produce an average 20% to 24% annual excess of new Ph.D.s over employment opportunities. The models…
Descriptors: Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Hoy, John C., Ed.; Bernstein, Melvin H., Ed. – 1982
A collection of analyses and projections is presented that explores the challenges posed by a rapidly evolving economy and the critical issue of manpower policy facing New England and the nation. New England was able to move from traditional industry to high technology because its colleges and universities supplied basic research and trained…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Declining Enrollment, Economic Development, Economic Factors
