Baccalaureate Origins of Recent Natural Science Doctorates

Tidball, Mabel

doi:10.2307/1981195

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“…I think the most significant thing probably was the personal and emotional support.'' Support, specifically the number of supportive female faculty within a department, is critical to female success within physics [27]. This departmental support, or lack thereof, ties nicely into what experiences outside of the department and graduate school help females be successful and confident in their career choices as physicists.…”

Section: School Balancementioning

confidence: 99%

Female physicist doctoral experiences

Dabney

Tai

2013

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res.

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The underrepresentation of women in physics doctorate programs and in tenured academic positions indicates a need to evaluate what may influence their career choice and persistence. This qualitative paper examines eleven females in physics doctoral programs and professional science positions in order to provide a more thorough understanding of why and how women make career choices based on aspects both inside and outside of school and their subsequent interaction. Results indicate that female physicists experience conflict in achieving balance within their graduate school experiences and personal lives and that this then influences their view of their future careers and possible career choices. Female physicists report both early and longterm support outside of school by family, and later departmental support, as being essential to their persistence within the field. A greater focus on informal and out-of-school science activities for females, especially those that involve family members, early in life may help influence their entrance into a physics career later in life. Departmental support, through advisers, mentors, peers, and women's support groups, with a focus on work-life balance can help females to complete graduate school and persist into an academic career.

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Section: School Balancementioning

confidence: 99%

Female physicist doctoral experiences

Dabney

Tai

2013

Phys. Rev. ST Phys. Educ. Res.

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“…The lone exception to this litany of positive outcomes is that students at women's colleges tend to be less satisfied with the quality of social life their campuses afford (Astin, 1993;Smith, 1990;Smith et al, 1995). Tidball's (1973Tidball's ( , 1980Tidball's ( , 1985Tidball's ( , 1986) extensive body of widely cited baccalaureate origin research suggests a positive relationship between attendance at a women's college and alumnae career attainment. Women's college alumnae were more likely to be women "achievers," defined as those recognized in Who's Who in America.…”

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Women Students at Coeducational and Women's Colleges: How Do Their Experiences Compare?

Kinzie¹,

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Palmer³

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“…Elizabeth Tidball, a pro-fessor of physiology at George Washington University, has shown that the presence of female faculty is strongly correlated with the number of female students who become scientists. 6 Seeing how different women with different family situations arrange their lives helps newer female students see how they might balance a career in science with a satisfying personal life. And there are some issues that female students are reluctant to raise with even the most sympathetic male adviser.…”

Section: The Loom: Recruiting Diverse Facultymentioning

confidence: 99%