{"id":2698,"date":"2013-03-19T08:44:37","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T12:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:23:15","slug":"women-minorities-and-persons-with-disabilities-in-science-and-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/women-minorities-and-persons-with-disabilities-in-science-and-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of McGill&#8217;s second <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/osd\/policies\/disability-awareness-week\">Disabilities Awareness Week<\/a>, I thought that I would bring your attention to this site from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF):\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/statistics\/wmpd\/2013\/\">Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering<\/a>. This site is where you can find statistics on\u00a0women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. They write a report every two years, mandated by the Science and Engineering Equal Opportunities Act,\u00a0and have made the\u00a0latest digest available for download, along with the corresponding data files. The themes of the digest are\u00a0enrollment,\u00a0field of degree, employment status, occupation, academic employment, and persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NSF, persons with disabilities are underrepresented in the science and engineering workforce compared to the population as a whole. However, the graph below shows that since 2008, U.S. citizens and permanent residents with disabilities have earned more science and engineering doctorates\u00a0than in non-S&amp;E fields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/NSFfig6b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2701\" alt=\"NSFfig6b\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/NSFfig6b.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/NSFfig6b.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/NSFfig6b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/03\/NSFfig6b-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of McGill&#8217;s second Disabilities Awareness Week, I thought that I would bring your attention to this site from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF):\u00a0Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering. This site is where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/women-minorities-and-persons-with-disabilities-in-science-and-engineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[63,186,187,151],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-mcgill-university","tag-persons-with-disabilities","tag-statistics","tag-women-in-the-stem-fields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}