Summary of “Women Edge Past Men in Doctorates in US”
The article’s main point is that women are starting to get better than men in the doctorates degrees, and that six out of ten students in graduated schools are women. In 2009 the women earned sixty percent of the master’s degree which in about 90 percent of all the graduate degrees awarded. Women also earned fifty and four-tenths of all doctorates degrees and that was the first year ever that women had earned more doctorates than men.
Moreover the article is about how the graduate schools enrollment has increased in all subjects between 1999 and 2009, and that the largest shares of doctorates in 2009 were in education, engineering, and biological and agricultural sciences.
The growth in graduate schools, in 2009, in first-time students from the United States was very strong. At the same time enrollment of new international students decreased, the first drop since 2004.
Then there is a quote from President Obama, which is the last thing in the article. He is talking about the hard times that the country is going through. That the students need to work hard "because an education has never been more important than it is today." He is talking about that the farther you go in school, the farther you go in life and he is also saying that when you determine your success in school you are also determining is America’s success in the twenty-first century.
Moreover the article is about how the graduate schools enrollment has increased in all subjects between 1999 and 2009, and that the largest shares of doctorates in 2009 were in education, engineering, and biological and agricultural sciences.
The growth in graduate schools, in 2009, in first-time students from the United States was very strong. At the same time enrollment of new international students decreased, the first drop since 2004.
Then there is a quote from President Obama, which is the last thing in the article. He is talking about the hard times that the country is going through. That the students need to work hard "because an education has never been more important than it is today." He is talking about that the farther you go in school, the farther you go in life and he is also saying that when you determine your success in school you are also determining is America’s success in the twenty-first century.