Table of Contents

Front Matter 

• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Executive Summary

Introduction 

• Overview
• Specific concerns
• Broad demographic characteristics of the U.S. population
• Racial and ethnic categories
• Organization of this report
• Data sources, availability, and reliability
• Statistical reliability

Chapter 1. Undergraduate Enrollment

• Overview
• High school completion
• Women
• Minorities
• Students with Disabilities
• College enrollment rates
• Women
• Minorities
• Students with Disabilities
• Two-year institutions
• Women
• Minorities
• Students with Disabilities
• Four-year colleges and universities
• Women
• Minorities
• Field choice
• Engineering enrollment
• Women
• Minorities
• Undergraduate persistence and attainment
• Women
• Minorities
• Students with Disabilities

Chapter 2: Undergraduate Degrees 

• Overview
• Associate's degrees
  • Women
  • Minorities
  • Minority women
  • Persons with Disabilities
• Bachelor's degrees
  • Women
  • Minorities
  • Minority women
  • Persons with Disabilities

Chapter 3: Graduate Enrollment 

• Overview
• Transition to graduate school
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities
• Enrollment Trends
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities
• Field Choices
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities
• Enrollment Status
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities
• Sources of financial support
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities

Chapter 4: Graduate Degrees 

• Overview
• Master's degrees
• Women
• Minorities
• Asians
• Blacks
• Hispanics
• American Indians
• Minority Women
• Persons with Disabilities
• Doctorates
• Women
• Minorities
• Asians
• Blacks
• Hispanics
• American Indians
• Minority Women
• Persons with Disabilities
• Postgraduation plans and postdocoral fellowships
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities

Chapter 5. Science and Engineering Employment 

• Overview
• Trends in science and engineering employment, 1993-97
• Women
• Minorities
• Minority women
• Persons with Disabilities
• Demographic characteristics: age and educational attainment
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities
• Science and engineering occupation
• Women
• Minorities
• Minority women
• Persons with Disabilities
• Labor force participation, employment, and unemployment
• Women
• Minorities
• Minority women
• Persons with Disabilities
• Sector of employment
• Women
• Minorities
• Persons with Disabilities
• Employment in educational institutions: type of employing school, rank, and tenure
• Women
• Minorities
• Minority women
• Persons with Disabilities
• Nonacademic employment
• Women
• Minorities
• Minority women
• Persons with Disabilities
• Salaries
• Women
• Minorities
• Minority women
• Persons with Disabilities

Appendices 

• Appendix A: Technical Notes
• General information
• Racial/ethnic information
• Information about persons with disabilities
• Primary non-NSF sources
• Primary NSF/Division of Science Resources Studies (SRS) sources
• Sampling errors
• Appendix B: Statistical Tables

National Science Foundation
Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering: 2000
Arlington, VA, 2000. (NSF 00-327)