Women Gaining Degrees and Ground

Source: U.S. Department of Education

Women are educating themselves in areas once dominated by men.
In 2000, about half of those earning bachelor’s degrees in business were women.
Twenty years earlier, women made up only 34 percent of business graduates.
From 1980 to 2000, women earning four-year degrees in engineering rose by 109 percent, while the male numbers decreased by 5.3 percent.
In the area of mathematics, the number of women earning related degrees has risen by 16 percent, and men’s numbers have fallen slightly.
At the same time, women have gained even greater ground in nursing and teaching careers, both female-dominated fields.
In 2000, women made up 76 percent of those graduating with a degree in education.
Likewise, nursing degrees were largely conferred upon women with men making up only about one percent of those receiving nursing degrees in 2000.