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Women have already outnumbered men among undergraduates and graduates for some time; now, women are earning more doctoral degrees than men too, reports Inside Higher Ed and NPR articles.
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According to Claudio Sanchez from (citing from the Council of Graduate Schools' latest report), women were awarded 50.4% of Ph.D.s in 2008-2009, compared to 44% in 2000-2001. Most Ph.D.s were awarded in the fields of health sciences, public administration, and education. Men still dominate Ph.D. (and M.A.) fields like engineering, an area in which only 22% of degrees are awarded to women. (That number, however, has gone up dramatically since 20 years ago when only 10% of Ph.D. degrees in engineering were awarded to women.)
The Inside Higher Ed article, "Women Lead in Doctorates," provides the following information on the percentage of women Ph.D. recipients according to field:
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- Health sciences - 70% female graduates
- Education 67%
- Public administration and services - 61%
- Social and behavioral sciences - 60%
- Arts and humanities - 53%
- Biological and agricultural sciences - 51%
- Business - 39%
- Physical and earth sciences - 33%
- Math and computer science - 27%
- Engineering - 22%
Other findings from the new CGS report (as noted in the Inside Higher Ed article) include:
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