**464 institutions.

1 SOME ADDITIONAL STATISTICS 1

(Victoria Schuck)

The number of women political scientists listed in the 1968 Directory total 554. Of these 404 were in full-time political science teaching and 150 in such other work as government, research, and journalism. The total constituted some seven percent of the entire listing.

Statistics on women in the profession may be analyzed in various ways. Of the women listed in the Directory who hold Ph.D.s, 117 or 56 percent report having received their degrees since 1960. If one looks at the absolute numbers of women awarded doctoral degrees over a number of years as reported by the National Academy of Sciences, the Census Bureau or the U.S. Office of Education, it is apparent that no decade has shown a decrease. Since the 1940s, for example, the number has doubled and redoubled every ten years, reaching 246 in the '60s (1960-1968). The figure is 258 for the decade 1958-1968.

If one examines the rate of growth in the number of doctorates in political science granted women during the decade 1958-1968 and compares this with the rate of growth for women Ph.D.s in such disciplines as economics, sociology, and psychology, or the social sciences generally, it is seen that the growth rate in political science exceeds that of all others except economics. Indeed it exceeds not only the growth rate for women Ph.D.s in all fields but also the growth rate of the population. And the rate is more than double that of men in political science. But the average number of Ph.D.s awarded in political science to women per year in the period 1958-1968 was 24, as compared with 264 for men, and is the lowest average in any field except for economics (20). (See Table 1 and Figures 1-4.)

TABLE 1.-AVERAGE ANNUAL COMPOUNDED RATES OF GROWTH IN DOCTORAL PRODUCTION, 1958-68

Source: National Academy of Science-National Research Council, "Doctorate Production in the United States Universities, 1920-62," compiled by Lindsey R. Harmon and Herbert Soldz, Washington, D.C., Publication No. 1142, National Academy of Sciences; Office of Scientific Personnel, Summary Report 1968, "Doctorate Recipients from U.S. Universities," prepared in the Education Employment Section, Manpower Studies Branch, OSP-MSOZ, Ap. 1969, Washington, D.C.; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States, Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 ff.; U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, "Earned Degree Conferred, Bachelor and Higher Degrees," Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, OE-54013-66, Circular No. 721; U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, "Estimates of the Population of the United States and Components of Change: 1940 to 1969," Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, series P-25, No. 418, Mar. 14, 1969. Formula Pa/pi-era Pi-number at beginning of period; P2=number at end of period; r-rate of growth; n=number of years.

Unless otherwise noted, this section of the report is excerpted from Victoria Schuck, "Women in Political Science: Some Preliminary Observations," in P.S., Fall 1969, vol. II, pp. 642-653, which is part two of this report.

2 In 1963, women constituted 12.5 percent of the membership of the American Sociological Association. See Ann E. Davis, "Women as a Minority Group in Higher Academics," The American Sociologist, May 1969, vol. 4, p. 98. There is a growing literature on women in the professions. For recent articles pertinent to the subject of women in teaching and research in institutions of higher learning see Jessie Bernard, Academic Women, University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University, 1964; Ann Fischer and Peggy Golde, "The Position of Women in Anthropology," American Anthropologist, April 1968. vol. 70, pp. 337-343; Alice S. Rossi, "Status of Women in Graduate Departments of Sociology, 1968-69," American Sociologist, February 1970, vol. 5, pp. 1–11.