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Lincoln, Anne E. – Social Forces, 2010
A confining limitation for the occupational sex segregation literature has been the inability to determine how many persons of one sex "would" have entered an occupation had the other sex not successfully entered instead. Using panel data from all American colleges of veterinary medicine (1976-1995), a fixed-effects model with lagged independent…
Descriptors: Veterinary Medical Education, Veterinary Medicine, Employment Opportunities, Supply and Demand
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Cavas, Bulent; Cakiroglu, Jale; Cavas, Pinar; Ertepinar, Hamide – Science Education International, 2011
The shortfall of young people, particularly women, in the field of Science, Mathematics and Engineering (SME) has been shown in many national studies. Schreiner and Sjoberg (2007) indicated that boys outnumber girls in physics and engineering studies, while the gender balance is shifted towards the girls in studies including medicine, veterinary…
Descriptors: Females, Career Choice, High School Students, Veterinary Medicine
Wheeler-Meehan, Linda; Hiatt, Diana Buell – 1984
Changes in the percentage of women graduating from six male-intensive professions during 1960-1980 were analyzed, and the opinions of professional school deans about the causes of these changes were surveyed. The professions were medicine, veterinary medicine, dentistry, law, engineering, and architecture. Data were obtained from the National…
Descriptors: Architecture, Career Choice, College Graduates, Dentistry
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Zeglen, Marie E. – Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 1979
Results of the 1978 Senior Survey of veterinary college graduates in the US and Canada are presented. Included are: (1) response to the survey, (2) employment characteristics, (3) geographical distribution, (4) licensing patterns, (5) locational preferences, and (6) summary and conclusions. The survey form is appended. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Certification, Employment Patterns, Females, Geographic Distribution
Urban and Rural Systems Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1976
This exploratory study conducted for the Women's Action Program of HEW aimed at identifying and exploring the barriers to success that women face as school applicants and students and at describing the discrimination process, if any, that limits women's entry into the health professions. In this report on veterinary medicine, the profession is…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Animal Husbandry, Career Choice, Employment Opportunities
Urban and Rural Systems Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1976
The study focused on eight health professions: medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, and public health. Its central tasks were to identify and explore the barriers to success that women face as medical/professional school applicants and students and to describe the discrimination process that limits…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Affirmative Action, Allied Health Occupations Education, Dentistry
Urban and Rural Systems Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1976
The study focused on women's education in eight health professions: medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, podiatry, pharmacy, and public health. Its central tasks were to identify and explore the barriers to success that women face as school applicants and students. Almost 600 interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Admission (School), Affirmative Action, Allied Health Occupations Education
Lindegren, Alina M. – Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1952
In November 1948 the United States Office of Education received an invitation through the Embassy of Sweden, Washington, D.C., from the Sweden-America Foundation in Stockholm for Dr. Alina M. Lindegren, Specialist in European Education to visit Sweden for three weeks in January, February or March 1949 as a guest of the Foundation. The idea behind…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Educational Administration, Elementary Education