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poop@youface.net (james treblehorn) wrote:
> 56 
> The percentage of college students who are women. Women have
> constituted the majority of college students since 1979. 
> 
> 1982
> In each year since this year, more American women than men have
> received bachelor?s degrees.

The Third Wave Unmasked
http://www.csd.uwm.edu/~whopkins/FourthWave/Part8.htm

part of the Fourth Wave, presented at Transvision 2004
http://www.csd.uwm.edu/~whopkins/tv04.htm

The trend toward total BS+MS+PhD's earned has been a nearly straight
line since the 1890's and would have crossed over 50-50 by 1950,
but for the 30-year backtrack of World War II:

1890: 1/6; 1920: 2/6; 1940: 40%
(Disruption by World War II, trend backtacks 30 years)
1950: 2/6; 1980: 3/6; 2000: 60%

2004: The majority of BS's, MS's, and PhD's in the US are
earned by women.  The proportion of MS's earned by women is
over 50% in nearly every state, as high as 70% in some.

2002: The majority of newly enrolled students into Law School
are women, in the US.
2004: The majority, in the US, of med school students are women.

The trend is historic, dating from the 19th century and is worldwide.

It has absolutely nothing to do with anything within the power or
influence of mere humans.  It is something that is happening TO
them, not BY them.

Female/male ratio for college attendance many places elsewhere
all throughout the world gets more and more lopsided:

Female/Male ratios for college-level attendance (from UNESCO):
In Arabia:
2.69 2002 Qatar
2.58 1999 Kuwait
1.86 1999 Bahrain
1.67 2002 Oman
1.49 2002 Saudi Arabia

In the Caribbean:
2.55 2001 Barbados
2.24 2002 Jamaica
1.53 2002 Trinidad and Tobago
1.25 2002 Cuba
(US Virgin Islands around 3:1)

In Latin America:
1.82 2002 Uruguay
1.69 2002 Suriname
1.67 2000 Panama
1.48 2002 Argentina
1.37 2002 Venezuela
1.37 2002 Paraguay
1.32 2002 Honduras
1.29 2002 Brazil

In the former Communist world:
1.74 2002 Mongolia
1.69 2001 Albania
1.66 2001 Latvia
1.57 2001 Estonia
1.53 2001 Lithuania
1.43 2002 Poland
1.37 2002 Belarus
1.35 2001 Slovenia
1.35 2001 Bulgaria
1.34 2002 Moldova
1.33 2002 Russia
1.32 2001 Macedonia
1.29 2002 Hungary
1.23 2002 Kazakhstan

In Scandinavia:
1.73 2001 Iceland
1.54 2002 Sweden
1.52 2001 Norway
1.35 2001 Denmark

In Southern Africa:
1.28 2002 Lesotho
0.84 2001 Namibia (but WISTAT listed it at a 1.5 ratio)

Southeast Asia:
1.77 2002 Brunei Darussalam
1.75 2001 Myanmar
1.58 2002 Timor-Leste
1.29 2002 Philippines

Elsewhere in the developed world:
1.52 2002 New Zealand
1.38 2002 Israel
1.37 2001 Portugal
1.35 2002 United States
1.35 2001 Cyprus
1.34 2001 Canada
1.32 2001 Italy
1.29 2001 Malta
1.27 2001 Ireland
1.24 2002 Australia
1.23 2001 France
1.22 2001 Finland
1.20 2001 United Kingdom

Elsewhere:
1.40 2002 Tonga
1.29 2002 Mauritius