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To: DavesM who wrote (102530)	2/28/2005 8:07:17 AM
From: kech	Read Replies (2) of 793917

This argument is getting downright silly. There is a simple reason that there are so few Americans getting PhDs in engineering, in 2003 the average starting salary for a Chemical Engineer with a BS/BA was $52,000/yr. ($55,000/yr for a MS). So if you think it is so silly, and that explains why 90% of faculty are foreign born and male, then why is anybody complaining to Summers that there aren't enough women faculty in Sciences and Engineering? By the way, I am agreeing with you that this is a a big part which is on the demand side which is why I brought it up. Is there no associated effect on the supply side? I am not sure sure. But notice how that hasn't even been mentioned so far in the three points of Summers. Perhaps more reasons for why identifying the relative importance in causes is important. Certainly one would do different things to raise the proportion of domestic students (and therefore a higher proportion of women) than one would do if one thought the problem was discrimination against women within the domestic educational institutions.

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