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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED082636 AUTHOR: Sells, Lucy W.
TITLE: Preliminary Report on the Status of Graduate Women:
University of California, Berkeley.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1973
NOTE: 50 p.
ABSTRACT: This report provides data on doctoral production
and attrition at The University of California at Berkeley
and also nationwide to provide a baseline for comparision of
It was designed to contribute to the indentification of thos
that need affirmative action in order to bring the proportio
intellectually qualified women earning doctorates into
partiy with that of intellectually qualified men. The report
sections: presentation of nationwide,
university wide, and Berkeley data concerning women in
graduate school; Berkeley enrollment and degree figures for
doctoral production data for women; dropout data for women;
materials; and data on
two pilot studies of high school mathematics preparation
concerning the correlation of mathematics success for women
success; and the implications of
undergraduate major choice for women. (Author/PG)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Career-Choice; Dropouts-; Enrollment-;
Equal-Opportunities-Jobs; Feminism-; Mathematics-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Doctoral-Programs; *Females-; *Graduate
Study; *Higher-Education; *Sex-Discrimination
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