As an incoming Master student of Informatics, I really like visiting [this site](https://www.destatis.de/EN/Home/_node.html) and going through all the data and understanding what the demographics look like.
I work as a developer, the amount of women developers at work place is very very low compared to US or India.
And for Professors it is 25%. So it is cut in half at this point of the academic career.
In medicine, Women make up about
* 70% of students
* 48% of physicians
* 31% of attendings
* 13% of professors
I find this obsession with stats and proportions misleading at best, destructive at worst.
To be honest given the range of disciplines and the fact that younger women are more and more likely to get an education all the way through contributes to this too.
Most countries in the world even conservative Islamic republics have equal if not more representation of women in higher education
The reason is simple it’s because women have less career opportunities and need a tertiary education to get a well paying job of any sorts.
It’s after the education and higher level which is often the issue I feel. It’s also common to feel discrimination in STEM fields a lot more than other fields I guess.
Saying this as a female immigrant in physics who just completed her masters and entering Phd
Not at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It has like 27% women amongst students if I remember correctly.
The interesting question would be what they are studying in particular.
Being a free choice, I don’t see any good or bad numbers here.
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I wonder what this graph would look like if it were to incorporate other genders too, I bet this number may be low right now but maybe in a couple years.
maybe because of the even proportion of women / men that live in this country …. but I’m not a scientist
I dream of the day I get to join them 💙
On the first day I had a look in the big lecture hall where all of the students of Anglistik met. I was one of 4 guys in 150 people.
Am I the only to see that first year => 53% and Doctorates 45% ? So women are making shorter studies than their male counterpart. So no, the problem in professor rate won’t be solving itself anytime soon if we do a projection from there…
Who cares ? Both get treated equally, no need for this statistic
Is it just me or should it say “the proportion of women at university compared to the proportion of men in Germany is pretty even” else it sounds like you’d say that the proportion of men at universities in Germany isn’t even
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Source – https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Education-Research-Culture/Institutions-Higher-Education/Tables/frauen-anteile-akademische-laufbahn.html
As an incoming Master student of Informatics, I really like visiting [this site](https://www.destatis.de/EN/Home/_node.html) and going through all the data and understanding what the demographics look like.
I work as a developer, the amount of women developers at work place is very very low compared to US or India.
And for Professors it is 25%. So it is cut in half at this point of the academic career.
In medicine, Women make up about
* 70% of students
* 48% of physicians
* 31% of attendings
* 13% of professors
[(Source)](https://www.praktischarzt.de/magazin/immer-noch-eine-aufgabe-gleichstellung-bei-aerztinnen/)
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I find this obsession with stats and proportions misleading at best, destructive at worst.
To be honest given the range of disciplines and the fact that younger women are more and more likely to get an education all the way through contributes to this too.
Most countries in the world even conservative Islamic republics have equal if not more representation of women in higher education
The reason is simple it’s because women have less career opportunities and need a tertiary education to get a well paying job of any sorts.
It’s after the education and higher level which is often the issue I feel. It’s also common to feel discrimination in STEM fields a lot more than other fields I guess.
Saying this as a female immigrant in physics who just completed her masters and entering Phd
Not at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. It has like 27% women amongst students if I remember correctly.
The interesting question would be what they are studying in particular.
Being a free choice, I don’t see any good or bad numbers here.
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I wonder what this graph would look like if it were to incorporate other genders too, I bet this number may be low right now but maybe in a couple years.
maybe because of the even proportion of women / men that live in this country …. but I’m not a scientist
I dream of the day I get to join them 💙
On the first day I had a look in the big lecture hall where all of the students of Anglistik met. I was one of 4 guys in 150 people.
Am I the only to see that first year => 53% and Doctorates 45% ? So women are making shorter studies than their male counterpart. So no, the problem in professor rate won’t be solving itself anytime soon if we do a projection from there…
Who cares ? Both get treated equally, no need for this statistic
Is it just me or should it say “the proportion of women at university compared to the proportion of men in Germany is pretty even” else it sounds like you’d say that the proportion of men at universities in Germany isn’t even
At my University its 26,9% Women.
Sauce: https://www.tuhh.de/tuhh/tu-hamburg/profil/kennzahlen.html
Wait are they forced to choose by the goverment what to study???
Lol not in engineering
Is this representative of Heidelberg as well?