Islamic Women in Science Farkhonda Hassan

Supplemental Table 2. Numbers and percent distribution of female university students in science and technology faculties in Egypt. Source: Egypt Supreme Council of Universities (1995-96).
Department	Females	Total students	Percent female
Medicine	7,822	21,511	36.4
Veterinary Medicine	1,960	6,975	28.1
Dentistry	1,211	2,715	44.6
Pharmacy	5,369	12,800	41.9
Sciences	7,344	22,336	32.9
Engineering & Technology	11,070	45,857	24.1
Agriculture	5,671	17,199	33.0

Supplemental Table 3. Numbers and percent distribution of female university students in science and technology faculties in Bangladesh. Source: Mainstreaming Women in Science and Technology. Approtech-Asia (1993).
Department	Females	Total students	Percent female
Physics	210	1426	14.7
Applied Physics	72	281	25.6
Chemistry	255	1289	19.8
Applied Chemistry	74	465	15.9
Botany	305	893	34.2
Zoology	317	972	32.6
Psychology	295	685	43.1
Statistics	330	1540	21.4
Geography	248	1012	24.5
Biochemistry	31	232	13.4
Pharmacy	40	262	15.3
Soil Science	29	270	10.7
Agricultural Univ.	307	3258	9.4
Mathematics	140	1549	9.0
Engineering Univ.	339	4150	8.2
Medical Science	1971	8346	23.6

Supplemental Table 4. Percentage of female university students in Iraq. Source: Iraq, Committee on Work Force Planning, "Report on the Development of Educational Institutions in Iraq, 1975-82" and Iraq Central Statistical Organization, Directorate of Social Statistics, Annual Abstract of Statistics. (1980-96).
Department	female students
	1981-82	1995-96
Medicine	39	34
Oral Medicine (Dentistry)	3	53
Pharmacy	82	33
Nursing	39	14
Engineering	26	21
Civil	16	11
Mechanical	14	19
Textiles	53	48
Electrical	26	21
Architectural	34	29
Chemical	65	60
Irrigation	27	22
Petroleum	24	19
Control & Systems	48	43
Veterinary Medicine	23	42
Agriculture	23	17
Basic Sciences	39	44
Chemistry	53	57
Physics	27	31
Math	39	43
Biology	51	55
Geology	15	16

Supplemental Table 5. Numbers and percentage of female university students in Jordan for two academic years. Source: Jordan, Higher Council for Science and Technology, "Study of national scientific and technological requirements and potential (phase II): Scientific and technological capabilities, 1997."
	BSc students 1996-97			Postgraduate students 1995-96
Area of Study	Females	Total students	Percent female	Females	Total students	Percent female
Natural & Applied Sciences	12,227	31,243	39.1	326	1,719	19.0
Humanities & Social Sciences	23,716	52,263	45.4	1,145	4,108	27.9
Total	35,943	83,506	43.0	1,471	5,827	25.2

Supplemental Table 6. Numbers of students and percentage of female BSc university students in Lebanon for two academic years. Sources: Data for 1993 and 1994 compiled from the Centre for Educational Research and Development (CERD) educational statistics; data for 1997 collected from the universities.
	BSc students 1993-94		BSc students 1996-97
Department	Total students	Percent female	Total students	Percent female
Engineering	1313	17.5	1759	20
Agriculture	226	45.72	220	50
Medicine	507	32.12	747	30
Public Health	868	87	1198	83
Sciences	5197	41.2	6500	34
Dentistry	162	33.96	300	17
Pharmacy	198	75	200	70

Supplemental Table 7. Numbers and percentage of female BSc university students in Syria for two academic years. Source: Syrian Arab Republic, Ministry of Higher Education (1996).
	BSc students 1990		BSc students 1994
Department	Females	Percent female	Females	Percent female
Medicine	2,663	27.6	2,215	26.4
Dentistry	1,513	34.0	1,443	30.7
Pharmacy	1,306	56.2	1,453	53.5
Basic Sciences	7,167	40.6	6,012	42.1
Veterinary Medicine	48	4.4	64	4.5
Engineering
Agricultural	1,119	25.0	1,507	28.9
Civil	2,522	27.2	2,485	30.5
Mechanical	1,486	18.4	1,263	18.1
Electrical	2,097	23.3	1,883	22.3
Chemical	133	15.7	174	16.8
Total	20,859	30.2	19,382	30.5

Supplemental Table 8. Percentage of female faculty members in Iraq for two academic years. Source: Iraq Ministry of Planning, "Women's learning and employment trends" (1983) and Iraq, Central Statistical Organization, "Annual Report of the Directorate of Social Statistics (1994-96).
	Faculty 1981-82		Faculty 1995-96
Department	Females	Percent female	Females	Percent female
Medicine	170	30.4	204	26.4
Engineering	35	7.2	216	19.7
Basic Sciences	256	27.2	346	33.7
Agriculture	34	6.7	100	13.6
Veterinary Medicine	15	10.8	70	23.5

Supplemental Table 9. Percentage of female faculty members in Lebanon. Source: Data collected from different universities (1997).
Faculty
Department	Females	Total faculty	Percent female
Medical Sciences
Medicine	96	677	14.2
Dentistry	54	300	18.0
Pharmacy	107	201	53.2
Nursing and Public Health	166	467	35.5
Engineering
Civil	10	79	12.7
Electrical	6	48	12.5
Mechanical	7	68	10.3
Computer	7	22	31.8
Agriculture
Nutrition	8	16	50.0
Soil and Crop Production	22	60	36.7
Animal Science	8	30	26.7
Basic Sciences
Mathematics	8	121	6.6
Physics	8	105	7.6
Chemistry	28	103	27.2
Biology	31	103	30.1
Computer Science	6	23	26.1
Math and Science Education	9	22	40.9

Supplemental Table 10. Percentage of female faculty members in Syria. Source: Syrian Arab Republic, Ministry of Higher Education (1995).
Faculty
Academic year	Female	Total faculty	Percent female
1989-90	118	1473	8.0
1993-94	245	2971	8.2
Total	410	5636	7.3

Supplemental Table 11. Numbers and percentage of females in nonuniversity science and technology positions in Egypt. Source: Egypt, Academy of Scientific and Research and Technology, 1995-96.
Percent females in
Center or Institute	Total	Females	Percent female
National Research Center	2531	1192	47.1
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	601	255	42.4
Theodore Bilharz Research Institute	338	190	56.2
Ophthalmology Research Institute	328	168	51.2
Petroleum Research Institute	275	117	42.5
National Institute for Remote Sensing (1992)	13	2	15.4
National Institute of Measurements & Standardization	173	57	32.9
Electronics Research Institute	201	67	33.3
National Institute of Astronomical & Geophysical Research	222	24	10.8
Metallurgical Research Institute	158	34	21.5
Mubarak City for Scientific Research and Applied Technology	154	53	34.4
Total	4994	2159	43.5

Supplemental Table 12. Numbers and percentage of females holding university degrees in selected institutions in Syria. Source: personal interviews, 1997.
Percent females holding positions
	Ph.D.			B.Sc. & Eng. degrees
Institution	Total	Females	Percent female	Total	Females	Percent female
The Syrian Atomic Energy Commission	64	4	6.25
Center for Testing and Industrial Research	4			49	23	46.9
Center for Management and Productivity Development	5			23	12	52.2
Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology	41	6	14.6
Directorate of Scientific Agricultural Research	39	2	5.1
Arabian Medical Company	1			111	45	40.5

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