TY  - JOUR
AU  - Canes,Brandice J.
AU  - Rosen,Harvey S.
TI  - Following in Her Footsteps? Women's Choices of College Majors and       Faculty Gender Composition
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4874
PY  - 1995
Y2  - May 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4874
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4874.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Harvey S. Rosen
Department of Economics
Fisher Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1021
Tel: 609/258-4022
Fax: 609/258-6419
E-Mail: HSR@princeton.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1995-05-01
AB  - It is frequently asserted that a college's female undergraduate enrollment in the sciences and engineering can be increased by raising female representation on the faculties in these areas.  Despite the widespread acceptance of this proposition, it does not appear to have been subjected to any kind of serious statistical analysis.  In this paper, we assemble panel data from three rather different educational institutions, and use them to examine the relationship between the gender composition of the students in an academic department and the gender composition of its faculty at the time the students were choosing their majors.  We find no evidence for the conventional view that an increase in the share of females on a department's faculty leads to an increase in its share of female majors.
ER  -