Table 6
MALE-FEMALE SALARY RELATIONSHIPS (1970 AND 1973)
AMONG FULL-TIME DOCTORATES INCLUDED IN ALL 
1960-73 NSF SURVEYS

Fields
Average Annual Salary

1970 1973

NATURAL SCIENCES
Men
Women
Ratio of women/men
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Men
Women
Ratio of women/men
TOTALa
Men
Women
Ratio of women/men

$20,646
$17,061
.83

$24,854
$20,718
.83

$21,442
$17,171
.80

$26,537
$21,027
.80

$20,508
$17,073
.83

$24,851
$20,910
.84

aIncludes miscellaneous fields as well as the natural sciences and the social sciences.
Source: National Academy of Sciences.