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Context Factors Related to Women Attrition From a Graduate Science Program:
A Case Study

Maria Madalena Ferreira, Ph.D.

FERREIRA, SPECIAL RWE ISSUE, FALL, 2002

Table 2

Student Attrition Rate for Each Entering Cohort 1986-1994

Cohort

Year

Females

Entered Left (%)

Males

Entered Left (%)

1986

15

2 (13)

33

9 (27)

1987

17

9 (53)

27

9 (33)

1988

19

9 (47)

33

10 (30)

1989

13

7 (54)

23

8 (35)

1990

17

9 (53)

33

10 (30)

1991

24

8 (33)

28

11 (39)

1992

16

8 (50)

35

12 (34)

1993

17

11 (65)

24

10 (42)

1994

17

6 (35)

42

5 (12)

Avg

17

8 (45)**

31

9 (30)**

**p < .01.

 

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