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| Agriculture | 2.7% | 30.8% | 31.1% | 41.7% | |||||
| Architecture | 4.0 | 18.3 | 39.3 | 35.1 | |||||
| Biological Sciences | 28.2 | 44.1 | 50.2 | 55.1 | |||||
| Business | 8.5 | 3.67 | 46.7 | 48.5 | |||||
| Computer and information science | 13.01 | 32.5 | 30.7 | 26.7 | |||||
| Education | 75.3 | 75.0 | 77.7 | 75.2 | |||||
| Engineering | 0.4 | 10.3 | 13.6 | 16.9 | |||||
| English & English literature | 66.2 | 66.5 | ---- | 66.9 | |||||
| Foreign languages | 70.7 | 75.6 | 73.3 | 70.0 | |||||
| Health | 76.9 | 83.5 | 84.9 | 82.9 | |||||
| Home economics | 97.5 | 95.5 | 90.6 | 87.6 | |||||
| Mathematics | 33.3 | 42.8 | 46.0 | 46.5 | |||||
| Physical Sciences | 13.6 | 24.6 | 29.7 | 39.4 | |||||
| Psychology | 41.0 | 65.0 | 70.8 | 74.4 | |||||
| Social sciences | 35.0 | 44.2 | 44.4 | 49.2 | |||||
| Economics | 9.8 | 30.5 | ---- | 31.7 | |||||
| History | 34.6 | 37.9 | ---- | 39.1 | |||||
| Sociology | 59.6 | 69.6 | ---- | 68.8 | |||||
| 1 Data are for 1969, earliest year available
----- Not Available Note that women are most highly represented in home economics and health,
which reflect the traditional female role, and are most underrepresented
in such “technical” areas as
Sources: U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Office of
Education, “Earned Degrees Conferred, 1980-81”; U.S. Department of Education,
National Center for Education Statistics, “Trends in Bachelor’s and Higher
Degrees, 1975-1985”; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract
of the United States, 1992; National Center for Education Statistics. 2001.
Digest of Education Statistics, 200, table 257. Washington, DC: U.S. Department
of Education. Also available on the World Wide Web:
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