Ninety-six percent of parents of minority children ages 5 to 18 believe their sons and daughters can succeed in mathematics and science subjects. A strong percentage of those parents also believe their sons and daughters can prosper in professional fields in those areas, a survey shows.
The 鈥淏ayer Facts of Science Education Survey鈥� is available in and from .
The poll was conducted in March and April by the Bayer Corp., the Pittsburgh-based subsidiary of German pharmaceutical and health-care company Bayer AG.
But while 65 percent of the parents polled believe science- and math-related fields are 鈥渧ery desirable鈥� professions for their male children, only 41 percent of the those professions were as favorable for their daughters.
The telephone poll of 1,250 parents were completed, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points for the first 1,000 responses and 7 percentage points for the remaining 250 respondents.
