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Number of Women Earning Doctorates Declined Slightly in 2010
Part of the decline may be the result of a reclassification of earned doctorates in the field of education.
Women’s Colleges With the Highest Graduation Rates
At 90 percent, Wellesley College has the highest graduation rate among women’s colleges.
Women Have a Higher Graduation Rate Than Men at All 50 Flagship State Universities
Among all the 50 flagship state universities, the highest graduation rate for women is at the University of Virginia.
Harvard and Yale Lead the Ivy League in Graduation Rates for Women
All eight Ivy League college have a graduation rate for women above 90 percent.
Lipscomb University Establishes a Degree Program for Inmates at a Women’s Prison
Faculty and students from campus travel to the women’s prison for classes.
Women Making Substantial Progress in Educational Attainment in Latin America
A new World Bank report shows that despite educational advancement, women in Latin America still face huge obstacles in their quest for equality.
Universities Seek to Increase the Number of Women in Computer Science
The National Center for Women & Information Technology is leading the effort to increase the number of women studying computer science.
The Gender Gap in College Graduation Rates
The gap is larger for student athletes than for college students in general.
Women in Canada and Japan Outpace American Women in Higher Education Completion
The college completion rate for women of 64 percent in Canada and 59 percent in Japan is far higher than the rate in the United States.
The Global Gender Gap in Higher Education Graduation Rates
In all pre-doctoral programs in higher education, women outperform men in graduation rates in five of the six developed countries studied.
The Gender Gap in Dental Schools Has a Major Racial Component
For whites, men still lead the way. But for minority groups there are more women in dental schools.
The Gender Gap in Lifetime Earnings for Higher Education Graduates
Women college graduates earn on average less than 75 percent of what male college graduates earn over their lifetimes.
New Data on the College Graduation Rates of Women
The U.S. Department of Education recently released data on the success rate of the cohort of students who entered higher education in the fall of 2003. For all students who enrolled in any type of postsecondary educational institution in 2003, 31 percent of women earned a bachelor’s degree by 2009. This was only slightly higher […]
The Gender Gap in Australian Higher Education
Australian women are more likely to enroll and less likely to drop out than Australian men.
Tracking the Progress of Women in Law School Graduations
By 2003 women had appeared to close the gender gap in law school graduations. But since then, the gap has widened.
Women Have Made Huge Strides in Medical Training
In the middle of the twentieth century, women were about 10 percent of all graduates of U.S. medical schools. Today, the gender gap has almost been eliminated.
The Gender Gap in Earnings for College Graduates Varies Across Major Disciplines
A new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University finds that on average a person with a bachelor’s degree will earn 84 percent more over the course of his or her lifetime than a peer who only graduated from high school. But the earnings benefit of a college degree is not uniform across the major disciplines. And the gender gap in earnings can be quite different depending on the degree earned.
Ranking the States in Producing Women Graduates in STEM Fields
Some states did a far better job in steering women toward degrees in STEM fields than other states.
The Gender Gap in African-American Degree Attainments
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that of the more than 3.2 million living African Americans who held bachelor’s degrees in 2010, 60.2 percent were women.
For the First Time, More American Women Hold Graduate Degrees Than American Men
For the first time in history, American women hold more graduate degrees than American men.
Women Are Increasing Their Share of Degrees in STEM Fields
New data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that women are making progress in closing the gender gap in degree attainments in the so-called STEM fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In 2009, women earned 134,634 degrees in STEM fields. This was up from 127,134 STEM degrees in 2001. In 2009 women earned […]
Women Are Closing the Gender Gap in Doctoral Awards
Thirty years ago women earned less than one third of all doctoral degrees awarded by U.S. universities. In 2009, the latest year complete data is available, women earned 23,190 doctorates.
