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 degree and that six out of ten students in graduated schools are women. In 2009 the women earned 60 percent of the master’s degrees, which was about 90 percent of all the graduate degrees awarded. Women also earned fifty and four-tenth 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 enrollment has increased in all subjects since 1999 and 2009, and that the largest shares of doctorates in 2009 were in education, engineering, and biological and agricultural sciences. Furthermore the first-time students from the United States had a strong growth, but the in enrollment of new international students decreased, which was the first drop since 2004.
The last thing discussed in the article is that Barack Obama marked the new school year by a speech in a school in Philadelphia. He told the students that they needed to work hard, since education is more important then ever right now. Obama says that "The farther you go in school, the farther you’re going to go in life.”.
Moreover the article is about how the graduate enrollment has increased in all subjects since 1999 and 2009, and that the largest shares of doctorates in 2009 were in education, engineering, and biological and agricultural sciences. Furthermore the first-time students from the United States had a strong growth, but the in enrollment of new international students decreased, which was the first drop since 2004.
The last thing discussed in the article is that Barack Obama marked the new school year by a speech in a school in Philadelphia. He told the students that they needed to work hard, since education is more important then ever right now. Obama says that "The farther you go in school, the farther you’re going to go in life.”.
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