Tag: gender gap

For whites, men still lead the way. But for minority groups there are more women in dental schools.

Study finds that the gender gap is reduced if a broader definition of STEM fields which includes biological and health sciences is used.

Women hold only 24 percent of the jobs in STEM fields, the same percentage as is the year 2000.

Arizona and Mississippi have the highest percentage of women among total enrollments in higher education.

The U.S. Department of Education recently released data on the success rate of the cohort of students who entered...

Even for full-time workers, on average women with a bachelor's degree earn significantly less than men.

By 2003 women had appeared to close the gender gap in law school graduations. But since then, the gap has widened.

From 1999 to 2009 the percentage of dental school graduates who were women increased from 35 percent to over 46 percent.

Tenure rates have fallen but the gender gap remains large.

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.

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.

For the first time in history, American women hold more graduate degrees than American men.