Women for the first time earned a majority of U.S. doctoral degrees, building on decades of gains in higher education.
In the 2008-2009 school year, women received just over half of all doctorates, up from 49 percent in 2007-2008 and 44 percent in 2000, according to a report released today by the Washington-based Council of Graduate Schools, which represents more than 500 universities. The report doesn’t include professional degrees in law, business and medicine.
The milestone became inevitable because women have received the majority of bachelor’s and master’s degrees since the 1980s, building a pipeline of doctoral candidates, Nathan Bell, the council’s director of research and policy analysis, said in a telephone interview. Women are building on the gains of an earlier cohort of female scholars who were pioneers, said Elizabeth Sutton, who received her Ph.D. in art history in 2009.
[blockquote]who received her Ph.D. in art history in 2009[/blockquote]
I’ll see that Ph.D. in art history and raise it one Ph.D iin Womyn’s Studies.
So, can we now end the discriminatory affirmative action programs, sexist mentoring programs, and hostility toward anything remotely masculine?
“The milestone became inevitable…”
That ought to read *millstone*. Most PhD’s are pretty unusable except in the overcrowded /underemployed world of acadamia which produces….More PhD’s. And student loans. Wash, lather, repeat.
It is now necessary to reestablish all-males colleges, for there is no longer anywhere for a young male to go that is not firmly in the hands of the liberal establishment which has made femininism/male subordination an institutional requirement. Larry