Graduate Field of Study, by Sex. Indicator of the Month [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5619569
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED421906
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- Description:
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- [Washington D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 4 p.
- Summary:
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Changing job market opportunities affect the fields in which males and females choose to earn a graduate degree. This report examines disparities in field choices of the sexes. Highlighted are the following: (1) in 1994 substantially more females than males earned graduate degrees in education and the health professions; males earned a higher proportion of degrees in natural sciences, computer sciences and engineering, and business management; (2) although differences in the proportion of the sexes earning master's degrees in business management narrowed between 1971 and the mid-1980s, males were still twice as likely to earn a master's degree in business management in 1994; (3) differences in the proportions of males and females earning master's degrees in computer sciences and engineering narrowed each year between 1970 and 1986; however, since 1986 the proportion of males has stayed constant at five times that of females; (4) while a higher percentage of males earned master's degrees in the social and behavioral sciences between 1971 and 1983, a higher percentage of females earned these degrees between 1984 and 1994; and (5) since 1971 females have been consistently more likely to earn a doctoral degree in the social and behavioral sciences. Degrees awarded by selected fields are tabulated for the years between 1971-94. (MAB)
- Notes:
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- Availability: World Wide Web: http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/ce.
- ERIC Note: Extracted from "The Condition of Education, 1997"; see ED 404 766.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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