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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
