ABSTRACT
English departments, as AAUP and AAUW reports confirm, treat women much better than STEM departments, where only 21% of full professors are women, and engineering, with only 5% of female full professors. Continual probing led Hill, Corbett, and St. Rose to document reasons, through a meta-analysis of the literature, for ongoing underrepresentation of women in STEM fields (2010). At this writing, the National Science Foundation continues to fund several multimillion dollar programs (NSF ADVANCE) designed to make campus environments more amenable to women and minorities in STEM. The NSF reports that women earn half the doctorates in science and engineering in the U. S. but are grievously underrepresented at the highest ranks. Data on NSF's website reveal that although women obtain about half the STEM undergraduate degrees, they tend to leave STEM fields disproportionately, and women employed in STEM fields are more likely than males to have technician or other lower-level positions.
