The intersections of identity and persistence for retention in ecology and environmental biology with personal narratives from Black women

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Table 1. Race and ethnicity of doctoral recipients in ecology, geosciences and related fields as reported by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation (2021) Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2020.

Field of study	All doctorate recipients	Race/ethnicity*
		Black or African American	White	Hispanic or Latino
Ecology	388	12 (3%)	290 (74.7%)	22 (5.6%)
Entomology	124	2 (1.6%)	75 (60.4%)	6 (4.8%)
Evolutionary biology	207	5 (2.4%)	133 (64%)	9 (4.3%)
Wildlife biology, zoology	76	0	58 (76.3%)	5 (6.5%)
Geosciences, atmospheric sciences, and ocean sciences	1243	13 (1%)	646 (51.7%)	59 (4.7%)

* With the exception of the Geosciences, American Indian or Alaska Native representation was 0 for all fields of study. There was 1 doctoral recipient for the Geosciences.

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, National Science Foundation. (2021). Doctorate recipients from U.S. universities: 2020. NSF 22-300. https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf22300/

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