No, we?ve been over that. So why such a low number of women among National Academy members*? Perhaps it?s reflective of fewer women in science and engineering overall?
Not so fast, the percentages do not add up:
Are more female members elected from fields that have more women? Not quite, the math is still fuzzy:
Curiouser and curiouser. I honestly cannot explain what?s going on. Can readers? Can NAS?
* According to the Association for Women in Science, the 2000 spike in the first graph was a response to outcries about the low proportion of women being elected to NAS. However, instead of increasing the proportion of women, they increased the total elected # from 60 to 72. As you can see it has recently declined back to post-2000 numbers.
Thanks to Alice Popejoy at AWIS for the tip!
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