Female-Male Breakdown: College Degrees By Field
Submitted by CARPE DIEM
On this CD post, I presented charts using Dept. of Education data showing that 135.5 women received bachelor’s degrees (58% of the total) for every 100 men (42% of the total) in 2005-2006, and the F:M bachelor’s degree ratio is expected to increase to 150:100 by 2016. By 2016, women are projected to receive 60% of bachelor’s degrees vs. 40% for men.
The Square Dots blog crunched the data even further, and did a nice breakdown using charts of the percentage of degrees granted for men and women for BA, MA and Ph.D. degrees by field in 2005-2006, using these data. The field most dominated by females for BA degrees was library science at 93% (although only 76 degrees were granted nationally), and the field most dominated by men was construction trades at 95% (although only 141 degrees were granted). See the chart above for BA degrees, click to enlarge, and the charts for MA and Ph.D. degrees are available here.
Some interesting findings from the data are that 59% of accounting degrees (bachelor’s) in 2005-2006 were granted to women, but only 35% for finance, and 30.5% for economics. But for development economics, females received 74% of the degrees.
