Statistics
Higher
Education
Faculty
in Computer Science
IT-Industry
Vocational
Training
Internet
Participation
Higher Education
The
Federal Government of Germany aims at increasing the percentage of
female first-year students in computer science up to 40% by the year
2005.
The following survey shows the development of women´s
participation in the subject group "computer science" (in German
"Informatik") from 1975 to the year 2000 (Source: Federal Office of
Statistics).
Explanations:
Title: male and female first-year students and graduates in the
subject group "computer science"
Früheres Bundesgebiet = former Federal Republic/West Germany
Deutschland = Germany
gesamt = all (male and female) students
Absolvent./ges. = all (male and female) graduates
weiblich = female students
Absolventinnen = female graduates
Proz. Anteil = percentage
Anzahl = numbers
Jahr = year
Comments:
The figures from 1975 until 1993 show the situation in the subject
group "Informatik" in West Germany, only. In the former German
Democratic Republic ("East Germany") the subject group "computer
science" was mostly called "Rechentechnik"(*) with women´s
percentages increasing through the 1970s and 80s up to 30% in the
years 1985-1990. After the fall of the Berlin wall and the German
reunification, women´s participation in computer science
decreased to West German figures. See as example.
[* in East Germany the term "Informatik" was used for library and
documentation studies]
Further
References:
Martin Beck: Latest Developments in the Number of Young People
Studying Computer Science, Engineering and Natural Sciences - an
International Comparision. In: Impulse nutzen. Future Opportunities
generated by Diversity in higher Education and Training. Women give
new Impetus to Technology (Ed), Bielefeld 2002. ISBN: 3-933476-07-0
(see also: www.impulse-nutzen.de)
Official federal government statistics on universities: www.destatis.de
The
University Information System Ltd. (HIS GmbH): www.his.de
Faculty in Computer Science
(to be added)
Further
References:
Official federal government statistics on universities:
www.destatis.de
IT-Industry
See:
http://mod.iig.uni-freiburg.de/frauen/berufe.html
Vocational
Training
The
relative proportion of women receiving training in IT and media
occupations is at about 25%.
(In: Information Society Germany. Innovation and Jobs in the
Information Society of the 21st Century. Progress Report of the
Federal Government´s Action Programme. Federal Ministry of
Economics and Technology & Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (Eds.). Berlin 2002. See also English publications at:
www.bmwi.de
or www.bmbf.de)
Internet
Participation
The
female Internet participation rate has increased from 30% in 1998 to
the level of 43% in the beginning of 2002
(In: Information Society Germany. Innovation and Jobs in the
Information Society of the 21st Century. Progress Report of the
Federal Government´s Action Programme. Federal Ministry of
Economics and Technology & Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (Eds.). Berlin 2002. See also English publications at:
www.bmwi.de
or www.bmbf.de)