Gender, Majors, and Money (InsideHigherEd)

[tenisghs]

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For comparison purposes, Bobbitt-Zeher divided majors into four categories: business; math, natural sciences, and engineering; education; and the social sciences, arts and humanities. Men are more likely than women to major in the first two categories and women more likely than men to major in the latter two. What Bobbitt-Zeher then noticed was that both men and women are increasingly majoring with more women, but that while men are headed toward parity, majors that are more popular with women are becoming increasingly dominated by women.</p>

<p>In the 1970s, men were majoring in programs in which women made up 23 percent of the students, and women were majoring in fields that were 49 percent female. By the 1990s, men were on average majoring in programs that were 45 percent female, while women were majoring in programs that were 60 percent female, and were becoming “feminized,” according to the paper.

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[tenisghs]

<p>I am quite surprised no one is interested in how certain majors affect earnings by gender.</p>

[barrons]

<p>Posted earlier today in college discussion area. AKA GBPH</p>

[tenisghs]

<p>Link please?</p>

[barrons]

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/761916-your-major-matters-more-than-ever.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/761916-your-major-matters-more-than-ever.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;