Women approached parity with men in law and medical studies in recent years, said Jacqueline E. King, an assistant vice president at the American Council on Education. Doctoral fields couldnt be far behind, she said.
parity n. 平价;同等;相等
result from 起因于;由 造成
Liz Nguyen, 25, is a doctoral candidate at the University of Maryland in chemistry, a field in which women have made gains but remain outnumbered. Many of her classmates are women, but the older generation of senior faculty is made up virtually of all men. It was always just a male-dominated field, she said.
Nguyen said the women she has met in doctoral study are very strong-willed women. I never saw women like that growing up.
Men may be staging a modest comeback. First-time enrollment in graduate education grew at a slightly faster rate for them than for women in 2009, reversing a long-term trend that has favored female enrollment. Meanwhile, the broader gender gap in higher education seems to be stabilizing. The split in enrollment and degrees remained constant through much of the past decade at about 57 percent women, according to a study King wrote this year.
reverse n. 背面;相反;倒退;失败 vt. 颠倒;倒转
split vt. 分离;使分离;劈开;离开 vi. 离开;被劈开;断绝关系
In general, higher education has expanded over the years to meet demand from both women and men, she said. I dont expect that its ever going to be all women.
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