Women Dominate Men in 7 of 10 Graduate Fields, and Women Are Gaining on Men in All 10 Fields
Mark Perry writes:
The table above displays data from The Council of Graduate Schools for the average annual growth in graduate school enrollment by gender over the ten year period from 1998-2008 for the ten main fields of graduate study. The bottom table above displays data for graduate school enrollment by gender in 2008.
Not only do women outnumber men in graduate school overall by a ratio of 143 females enrolled for every 100 males, but women outnumber men in 7 out of 10 graduate fields of study, and the annual growth in female graduate school enrollment from 1998-2008 is greater than the growth rate for men in all ten graduate fields of study. Even in academic disciplines like engineering where women were underrepresented in 2008 in terms of graduate school enrollment, the number of women enrolled in graduate engineering programs has grown at more than twice the annual growth rate for men in engineering from 1998 to 2008. More evidence that men have become the “second sex” in higher education.
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Could this be because of the number of men in the war in the Middle East?
I doubt it makes that much of a difference, especially in graduate fields. I’m also not sure how much larger the military is now than in years past.
Although women outnumber men in many higher education institutions, I am guessing that the number of working women and men is closer to 50/50 due to women dropping out of the workforce to raise children.
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