Parity in STEM Fields at 2-Year Colleges and Happy Women Faculty

[Lynda Milne]

Parity in STEM Fields at CCs and Happy Women Faculty

 

The National Science Foundation is supporting a research project to focus more attention on STEM faculty at community colleges, where men and women are about 50-50 in faculty positions over all, and where women make up 47.7 percent of STEM faculty (compared to about one third at four-year institutions). Researchers who are part of a team at Ohio University studying the issue gave an overview of initial findings here at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

 

Their major conclusions: Women in STEM faculty positions at community colleges are happy...

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/08/23/study_finds_high_satisfaction_by_women_in_science_at_community_colleges