Women exceed men in earning Ph.D.s in US in 2009

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2010-09-22 01:04

Story here. Excerpt:

'For the first time, more women than men in the United States received doctoral degrees last year, the culmination of decades of change in the status of women at colleges nationwide.

The number of women at every level of academia has been rising for decades. Women now hold a nearly 3-to-2 majority in undergraduate and graduate education. Doctoral study was the last holdout - the only remaining area of higher education that still had an enduring male majority.

Of the doctoral degrees awarded in the 2008-09 academic year, 28,962 went to women and 28,469 to men, according to an annual enrollment report from the Council of Graduate Schools, based in Washington.'

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The education gap is a real problem for males, and yet programs are still aimed squarely at females. This article still tries to spin this for women a little by claiming women suffer a pay gap, but the two stories below (especially the men's lib one that points out that in new jobs women now earn more) contradict this.

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Submitted by rlaspari on Wed, 2010-09-22 07:05