The DOI matches its Crossref record; 29 of the 29 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The loss of women from science, mathematics, and engineering undergraduate majors: An explanatory account
Abstract
The reasons for the loss of high ability women from science, mathematics, and engineering undergraduate majors are not well understood. However, investigators have, consistently, found an early loss of confidence in their ability to “do science” among such women. In seeking to explain why the vulnerability of women to leaving science majors greatly exceeds that of men, the author draws upon the findings of a 3‐year, ethnographic study of factors contributing to high undergraduate attrition rates among men and women of different ethnicities on seven campuses of different type. The explanatory focus is upon the consequences of a misfit between the learned expectations of women entering college mathematics and science classes, and those of faculty and male peers, about the purpose and nature of the undergraduate experience in these majors. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind
Brookes, A.-L., Belenky, M. F., Clinchy, B. M., Goldberger, N. R., & Tarule, J. M. (1988) · Curriculum Inquiry · doi:10.2307/1179565 · Cited by 4,915
Talking about Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences
Correll, S. J., Seymour, E., & Hewitt, N. M. (1997) · Contemporary Sociology · doi:10.2307/2655673 · Cited by 3,086
Self-citationWomen's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind.
Ostrander, S. A., Belenky, M. F., Clinchy, B. M., Goldberger, N. R., & Tarule, J. M. (1988) · Contemporary Sociology · doi:10.2307/2073557 · Cited by 2,038
Eccles, J. S. (1994) · Psychology of Women Quarterly · doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1994.tb01049.x · Cited by 1,291
Women's growth in connection: writings from the Stone Center
(1991) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.29-1800 · Cited by 1,039
Astin, A. W. (1993) · Cited by 817
A new perspective on women's math achievement.
Kimball, M. M. (1989) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.105.2.198 · Cited by 481
They’re Not Dumb, They’re Different: Stalking the Second Tier
Tobias, S., & Lin, H. (1991) · American Journal of Physics · doi:10.1119/1.16633 · Cited by 383
The development of women's sense of self
Miller, J. B. (1984) · Cited by 344
Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle
Gilligan, C. (1979) · Harvard Educational Review · doi:10.17763/haer.49.4.h136573541l3g463 · Cited by 333
Cited by
Springer, L., Stanne, M. E., & Donovan, S. S. (1999) · Review of Educational Research · doi:10.3102/00346543069001021 · Cited by 1,943
Stability and volatility of STEM career interest in high school: A gender study
Sadler, P. M., Sonnert, G., Hazari, Z., & Tai, R. (2012) · Science Education · doi:10.1002/sce.21007 · Cited by 699
Marra, R. M., Rodgers, K. A., Shen, D., & Bogue, B. (2009) · Journal of Engineering Education · doi:10.1002/j.2168-9830.2009.tb01003.x · Cited by 499
(2002) · Journal of college student development · Cited by 459
Factors That Influence Persistence in Science and Engineering Career Aspirations
Mau, W. (2003) · The Career Development Quarterly · doi:10.1002/j.2161-0045.2003.tb00604.x · Cited by 340
Metadata
- Authors
- Seymour, E.
- Venue
- Science Education
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1995-07
- Volume
- 79
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 437-473
- ISSN
- 0036-8326 (ISSN-L)
- 1098-237X
- OpenAlex
- W2016201542
- Cited by
- 342
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 24.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The loss of women from science, mathematics, and engineering undergraduate majors: An explanatory account. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1002/sce.3730790406
- The paper
- Seymour, E. (1995). The loss of women from science, mathematics, and engineering undergraduate majors: An explanatory account. Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.3730790406
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
