Women in Physics: Reversing the Exclusion
DOI: 10.1063/1.881315
Two decades ago US women earned about 4% of the nation’s physics PhDs. Today, they earn about 5%. Although discussed in various forums in recent years, the low representation of women in physics persists. The problem is especially perplexing given the dramatic increases in the percentages of women in other sciences and in engineering.
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Mary Fehrs, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon.
Roman Czujko, American Institute of Physics, New York.
