Survey Questions:

0) Gender: _________

1) What is your major and college?

2) In your field of study do you find that there is:
-an equal ration of males:females
-a larger amount of males
-a larger amount of females

3) Do you feel that minority groups are less likely to participate in class? (minority as in race and
gender)

4) Do you feel that socioeconomic status determines your ability to perform well at a college
level?

5) Do you think college is only half the battle for minorities across the United States?

6) Where did you go to high school?

a) Do you feel like an equal amount of males and females went on to college from
your high school? (Yes, No less males/females)
b) Do you feel like there is a similar ratio of male:female students at UNCC to your
high school?

7) Do you feel like you have the same opportunities as people of the opposite gender that are in
your major? If no, please explain.

Website Link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FPSCXD3

500 word Analysis:

Our survey answers are stating that majority feel participation across the board is fairly equal.
The least amount of people felt that Females were the group that participated the least. the least
amount of people to participate in classes were females. The next amount were males and then
minorities group. However, for the last biggest percentages we noticed that no participation at
all was the main response, which may indicate lack of effort/care within the classrooms. Our
group then found that most people to take our survey were mostly females rather than males.
That statistic really does not signify anything of importance besides the fact that was who our
group members decided to have take the survey. Our survey was not meant to show any bias it
was merely to collect information. Also the gap between male and females taking the survey was
not a huge gap. For instance, there was 47 females, and 38 males to participate in the survey.
One of our questions also asked whether or not socioeconomic status was contingent to college
performance, and most of the responses were no, and that it did not matter. It was hard to get the
type of information we wanted out of this question for one main reason. That main reason was
not knowing the type of socioeconomic status the person answering the question had was much
needed. Having that information would give us a way to detect bias in certain situations. This
question was also an open ended question where we could see peoples responses. And
throughout reading their responses the people that said no were more inclined to back up their
reason of saying no with a backstory of why they answered No. However, when people answered
yes most people were more likely to say only Yes and no other information to conclude why they
answered the way they did. People living in affluent societies would probably be more inclined
to say Yes, because they have not experienced a poor environment and their responses would
reflect on this type of survey. Most people that took the survey were satisfied with the thought
that UNCC female:male ratio was reflective of their high school female:male ratio. Another
question we asked was if the female ratio in their prospective career field was an equal
distribution of males and females. The most common response was no, in favor of the
professions being male dominated, informing us that there is an apparent unequal distribution of
genders among the careers selected by our participants at UNCC. That information leads our
group to believe that mostly computer science majors made up our survey because in one of the
questions it asked if the female:male were equal in their pursing profession and the most
common answer we found was no. We think of computer science, because when most people
think of lack of females the general consensus is to think of computer science. Also, in the data
collected by our survey, computer science is a common answer choice and there are lots of
technology related career fields chosen as well. However, our group is also open to considering
the fact that engineers/mathematics majors could have also taken the survey since those
profession lack females as well, or we could be suffering from a different side of the gender bias
and our participants may be revealing a dominantly female career field in areas such as nursing .
Entirely our survey consisted of around 90 plus people. The end of the survey allowed for people
to identify what career path they were pursuing so that we would be able to correlate if their
career choice had anything to do with their responses or bias. Majority also answered that in their
career path they feel that men and women have equal opportunity to be successful. However,
some participants did elaborate and discuss that it may take harder work for one gender in some
fields and that there were even some programs designed to assist success in particular for one
gender or race over another.

Graphical Statistics:
 How and why you chose the questions in the survey - a way to ask about
gender bias before college, to see if there was a correlation between majors.
Ways the survey probes questions you had from the readings -
socioeconomic status, distribution of gender questions
 Questions you may ask going forward - more detail in questions, add how
classrooms are, are high school questions helpful
Ways you reached an audience and assessment of success/limitations -
through group mes, phone contacts, people we know (express the need for more detail
in responses)
New ways you can reach your audience - social media sites, post link on
discussion blogs