PATSY MINK DREAMED OF BECOMING A DOCTOR, BUT none of the 20  medical schools she applied to accepted women. Edith Green wanted to become  an electrical .... Just before Title IX was signed into law, women were  underrepresented as undergraduates, at .... types—they're just over half the  faculty at institutions ...
Sep 14, 2010 ... The data are part of an analysis of graduate enrollments and degrees from the  Council of Graduate Schools. The majority ... Over all, women became the  majority of new doctorate recipients in a year in which their numbers increased  by 6.1 percent while male numbers increased by 1.0 percent. For now, the ...
that for every $1 invested in family planning programs, federal and state  governments save $7.09 in part because of ... who were college graduates, and  young women with legal pill access were able to both have children and pursue  ... major driver in women pursuing medicine, dentistry, and law. Today, Women  Are the ...
More specifically, this lawsuit was successful in forcing medical schools to  comply to the civil rights legislation. This success was seen by 1975 when the  number of women in medicine had nearly tripled, and continued to grow as the  years progressed. By 2005, over 25% of physicians and around 50% of medical  school ...
The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs  increased substantially just after 1970, and the age at first marriage among all  U.S. college graduate women began to soar around the same year. We explore  the relationship between these two changes and the diffusion of the birth control  pill ...
Over half of the young people in medical, dental and law schools are women.