Fig 8. Demographics of women PhDs, by ethnicity.

These categories are consistent with the categories used by the US Census and the NSF’s Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) [19]). However, before the 1990s, “multiracial” was not available as a category on the SED, and multiracial people were listed under “other.” Today, only Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders (NHOPI) fall in the “other” category. As such, for the US Census numbers listed above, we included the statistic for NHOPI with “other”.