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By Matt Rosenberg, About.com Guide to Geography since 1997

Female Undergrad and Graduate Students in the Majority

Wednesday December 20, 2006
The U.S. Census Bureau reports some exciting news on the gender front - 56 percent of the undergraduate student population and 59 percent of the graduate student population are women! The Bureau provides additional education statistics in a press release on their website.

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December 20, 2006 at 1:18 pm
(1) Catholicgauze says:

I recently saw a presentation on this. Some departments are now trying to recruit men (how things change). However, the field of geography still is greatly men over women.

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