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Women and Men in the Caribbean CommunityWomen Lag behind Men in Undergraduate Science and Technologywith Fair Showing in Medical and Natural SciencesTable 4.19 Total number, percentage women and percentagedistribution of undergraduate students by field of study, 1998/2000UndergraduatestudentsTotalnumberPercentagedistributionPercentwomen Women MenField of studyUniversity of Guyana, Turkeyen campus, 1998Agriculture 173 35 1 4Arts 288 75 4 3Education 484 83 8 3Adult and continuing education 3,245 76 47 29Law 93 52 1 2Medical Sciences 261 67 3 3Medicine 94 40 1 2Technology 440 7 1 15Natural sciences 617 47 6 12Social Sciences 2,179 68 28 26TOTAL 7,874 66 100 100ADEK, University of Suriname, 2000Agriculture Production 55 58 2 2Mineral Production 83 45 2 4Agogic and education learning 106 81 5 2Law (dag) 473 76 21 11Law (avond) 271 51 8 13Physiotherapy 35 77 2 1Medicines 282 54 9 13Engineering a 332 31 6 22Environment Sciences 40 83 2 1Social Sciences b 1,068 69 43 32TOTAL 2,745 62 100 100UWI, St. Augustine campus, 1998Agriculture 249 65 5 4Humanities 764 81 20 7Education 451 70 10 6Law 37 89 1 0Medical sciences 887 52 15 20Engineering 865 23 6 31Natural Sciences 795 57 15 16Social sciences 1,114 70 26 16TOTAL 5,162 58 100 100Sources: Prepared by the CARICOM Secretariat from Digest of Educational Statistics ofGuyana, 1998-1999; Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Bureau of Students Affairs; andUniversity of West Indies, student statistics.a Electrical engineering, infrastructure, mechanical engineering.b Business economics, plan economics, sociology, public administration and business learning.The proportion of women inundergraduate enrolment differedconsiderably by field ofstudy. In the three universitieswith data—the Universities ofGuyana, Suriname and the WestIndies (St. Augustine campusonly)—women constituted 70 to83 per cent of undergraduate studentsin education; in arts andin the humanities, 75 to 81per cent; and 68 to 70 per cent ofstudents in the social sciences(table 4.19). In addition, womenrepresented more than 75 per centof students in law, physiotherapyand environmental sciences at theUniversity of Suriname, and inlaw at the UWI St. Augustinecampus. The fields of study wherewomen constituted a minority differedamong the three universities.At the University of Guyana,women undergraduates comprised35 per cent, 40 per cent and 47 percent, respectively, in agriculture,medicine and natural sciences,and a mere 7 per cent of technologystudents but constituted67 per cent in medical sciences.At the University of Suriname,mineral production and engineeringhad less than 45 per cent and31 per cent women respectively,but medicine had 54 per centwomen. In the UWI St. Augustinecampus, engineering was the onlyfield in which women were a72
Chapter 4: EDUCATION AND TRAININGminority, representing only 23 per cent of the total undergraduate student population. Thedata, therefore, show that women are in fact outnumbering men in fields, such as Medicinesand medical sciences at some universities/campuses and also having some representation inthe field of engineering.The most popular field of study among both women and men was the social sciences, whichconstituted at least 26 per cent of undergraduate enrolment at all three universities (table4.19). Apart from social sciences, law attracted a substantial number of female students(21 per cent) in Suriname, while environmental sciences attracted many male students(22 per cent). At UWI St. Augustine, women were drawn to the humanities (20 per cent),medical sciences (15 per cent) and natural sciences (15 per cent), and men to engineering(31 per cent), the medical sciences (20 per cent) and the natural sciences (16 per cent).At the University of Guyana, adult and continuing education constituted an importantsegment of the total undergraduate enrolment, representing 47 per cent of all female enrolmentand 29 per cent of all male enrolmentGraduatesWomen Drawn to Educationand Humanities, Making Inroadsin Medical SciencesFor the two universities with data on graduates(UWI Mona campus and Universityof Guyana), the social sciences representthe field of study with the largest number ofgraduates; this was true for both women andmen (table 4.20). At the UWI Mona campus,48 per cent of all women graduates and42 per cent of all men graduates obtained adegree in the social sciences; the correspondingfigures at the University of Guyanawere 53 per cent of women graduates and42 per cent of men graduates. For women,the next most popular field was education,which accounted for around 15 per cent ofgraduates at both UWI and the Universityof Guyana. Also popular among womenwere humanities (16 per cent) at UWI,and medical sciences (14 per cent) atUniversity of Guyana. For men, the fields ofTable 4.20 Percentage distribution of graduates byfield of study, 1998/1999Field of studyUniversity of West Indies, Mona campus, 1999Percentage distributionWomenMenAgriculture 2 2Humanities 16 9Education 15 8Law 3 1Medical sciences 5 9Engineering 1 12Natural sciences 10 17Social sciences 48 42TOTAL 100 100University of Guyana, Turkeyen campus, 1998Agriculture 2 6Arts 4 4Education 16 6Medical sciences 14 12Technology 2 20Natural sciences 9 11Social sciences 53 42TOTAL 100 100Sources: Prepared by the CARICOM Secretariat from Digest of EducationalStatistics of Guyana 1998-1999.73
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