The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering
While the percentage of women in biomedical engineering is higher than in many other technical fields, it is far from being in proportion to the US population. The decrease in the proportion of women and underrepresented minorities in biomedical engineering from the bachelors to the masters to the d...
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| author | Chesler, Naomi C. Barabino, Gilda Bhatia, Sangeeta N. Richards-Kortum, Rebecca |
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| author_facet | Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Chesler, Naomi C. Barabino, Gilda Bhatia, Sangeeta N. Richards-Kortum, Rebecca |
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| description | While the percentage of women in biomedical engineering is higher than in many other technical fields, it is far from being in proportion to the US population. The decrease in the proportion of women and underrepresented minorities in biomedical engineering from the bachelors to the masters to the doctoral levels is evidence of a still leaky pipeline in our discipline. In addition, the percentage of women faculty members at the assistant, associate and full professor levels remain disappointingly low even after years of improved recruitment of women into biomedical engineering at the undergraduate level. Worse, the percentage of women graduating with undergraduate degrees in biomedical engineering has been decreasing nationwide for the most recent three year span for which national data are available. Increasing diversity in biomedical engineering is predicted to have significant research and educational benefits. The barriers to women's success in biomedical engineering and strategies for overcoming these obstacles—and fixing the leaks in the pipeline—are reviewed. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/594282022-09-29T09:39:17Z The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering Chesler, Naomi C. Barabino, Gilda Bhatia, Sangeeta N. Richards-Kortum, Rebecca Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Bhatia, Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Sangeeta N. While the percentage of women in biomedical engineering is higher than in many other technical fields, it is far from being in proportion to the US population. The decrease in the proportion of women and underrepresented minorities in biomedical engineering from the bachelors to the masters to the doctoral levels is evidence of a still leaky pipeline in our discipline. In addition, the percentage of women faculty members at the assistant, associate and full professor levels remain disappointingly low even after years of improved recruitment of women into biomedical engineering at the undergraduate level. Worse, the percentage of women graduating with undergraduate degrees in biomedical engineering has been decreasing nationwide for the most recent three year span for which national data are available. Increasing diversity in biomedical engineering is predicted to have significant research and educational benefits. The barriers to women's success in biomedical engineering and strategies for overcoming these obstacles—and fixing the leaks in the pipeline—are reviewed. 2010-10-20T17:47:28Z 2010-10-20T17:47:28Z 2010-02 2009-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1521-6047 0090-6964 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59428 Chesler, Naomi C. et al. "The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering." Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Feb.(2010) ©2010 Biomedical Engineering Society. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1293-2097 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-010-9958-9 Annals of Biomedical Engineering Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Biomedical Engineering Society MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Chesler, Naomi C. Barabino, Gilda Bhatia, Sangeeta N. Richards-Kortum, Rebecca The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering |
| title | The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering |
| title_full | The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering |
| title_fullStr | The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering |
| title_short | The Pipeline Still Leaks and More Than You Think: A Status Report on Gender Diversity in Biomedical Engineering |
| title_sort | pipeline still leaks and more than you think a status report on gender diversity in biomedical engineering |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59428 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1293-2097 |
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