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At Each Higher Rung of the Educational Ladder, Women Have Fewer Children
The data shows that women between the age of 40 and 50 in 2012, had an average of 1.989 children each during their lifetime. But the average number of children decreases for women as they move up the educational ladder.
The Higher Education of Centenarian Women
The data shows that 42.6 percent of the centenarian women did not complete high school. But 28.9 percent of these 100-year-old women had some college experience and 13.5 percent were college graduates.
Measuring the Gender Gap in Degree Attainment
In 2013, 33,774,000 women in the United States over the age of 25 had completed at least a four-year bachelor’s degree program. Another 9.6 million had earned master’s degrees, nearly 1.2 million held professional degrees and almost 1.3 million women had earned doctorates.
The Gender Gap in College Participation Rates
For students who graduated from high school in 2012, more than 71 percent of women were enrolled in college by October 2012. For male high school graduates in 2012, only 61.3 percent were enrolled in college the next fall.
Nearly 40 Million American Women and Girls Are Enrolled in School
At all levels of schooling through high school in 2012, there were slightly higher numbers of males than females. But there were 11,327,000 women enrolled in college or graduate school compared to only 8,602,000 men.
College-Educated Women Who Give Birth Are Far More Likely to Be Married Than Other Women
In 2011, 57 percent of all women who gave birth and had not graduated from high school were not married. For women who gave birth and had completed a four-year college degree, only 8.8 percent were not married.
Percentage of Nurses Who Are Men Has Tripled Since 1970
While men are still a small percentage of all nurses, male nurses earn more money than women nurses. In 2011, women nurses had average earnings of $51,100 while male nurses had average earnings of $60,700.
Women Have Almost Closed the Gender Gap in Degree Attainments
While in recent years, women have reached or surpassed equality in new degree attainments, the large lead among older men in degree attainments compared to older women gives men a slight overall lead among all living Americans over the age of 25.
