Sentences with phrase «higher female graduates»

The higher female graduates in Australia is a result of law being a first degree where you enter right out of high school.

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I am 72 and retired, female and divorced, with graduate degrees and 45 years an academic in higher education.

Female high school grads are currently paid 92 cents for every dollar paid to men, while female college graduates earn 79 cents for every dollar paid tFemale high school grads are currently paid 92 cents for every dollar paid to men, while female college graduates earn 79 cents for every dollar paid tfemale college graduates earn 79 cents for every dollar paid to men.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

Meanwhile, says Rübsamen - Waigmann, CEOs need to realise that if 50 % of graduates are women but only 15 % of their workforce is female, there is no way that that workforce is going to be of the highest calibre.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Quiz Ref IDFemale physicians now account for approximately one - third of the US physician workforce17 and comprise half of all US medical school graduates.18 Despite evidence suggesting that female physicians may provide higher - quality care,1 - 4, 7,8,10,12 - 16 some have argued that career interruptions for childrearing, higher rates of part - time employment, and greater tradeoffs between home and work responsibilities19 may compromise the quality of care provided by female physicians and justify higher salaries among male physicians.20 - 22 Therefore, empirical evidence on whether patient outcomes differ between male and female physicians is warranted.

Ransome points to well - known public, diverse, all - girls success stories such as Baltimore's Western High School, founded in 1844, which boasted a 100 percent college placement last year, and the Philadelphia High School for Girls, established nearly 200 years ago, which counts among its graduates a federal judge, an opera singer, the first female bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the first female head of the Black Panthers.

One wonders why, if this is the case, that the most elite college graduates have not flooded schools as they have the financial sector and how teaching remains the only female - dominated high - paying occupation.

In the 1940s, the salaries of male teachers were slightly above the average pay for all male college graduates, and female teachers had higher salaries than 70 percent of other female college graduates.

In 1972, 53 percent of males and 46 percent of females enrolled in two - or four - year colleges immediately after graduating from high school; in 2007 the comparable figures were 66 percent of males and 68 percent of females.

For instance, higher course requirements significantly reduced the probability of graduating from high school for blacks and for white males, but not for white females.

As other jobs were opening doors for high - achieving female graduates, the teaching profession closed them.

Even better, 80 percent of black male students now graduate within six years, which is slightly higher than the rate for black females and an improvement of 18 percentage points.

on Federal education data show male - female wage gap among young college graduates remains high

In 2009, male graduates generally had higher NAEP mathematics and science scores than female graduates completing the same curriculum level.

Of the students who graduated high school — a number that hovers around 60 percent — Harrington found that 13 percent of African American males got some sort of post-secondary degree (compared to 19 percent of black females, and 20 percent of the general population).

DEMOGRAPHICS • Gender: 70 percent male / 30 percent female • Age: 40 - 59 years old • Annual Household Income: $ 80,000 to $ 100,000 • Education: 45 percent college graduate • Household: 65 percent married; primarily post-family • Occupation: mix of mid-level white - collar workers, skilled tradespeople, and traditional blue - collar workers in high - paying professions MARKET ADVANTAGES • The ultimate modern American muscle sedan — the «Charger on steroids» • Powered by an SRT - engineered, 6.1 - liter HEMI V - 8 that produces 425 horsepower (317 kW) and 420 lb. - ft.

It seems women have really taken this bit of advice to heart: by 2012, 71 % of female high school graduates nationwide went on to college, compared to 61 % of men.

The majority of students in medical school are now women, for example, but female graduates are more likely to become general practitioners rather than higher - earning specialists.

Even though women make up about half of law school graduating classes, and are hired at a roughly equivalent rate as young associates, female attorneys seem to vanish as years go by, and disappear almost entirely at the highest levels of law firm leadership.

There were a higher proportion of female respondents who are in graduate roles compared to male respondents, indicating there are good opportunities for women to get into the industry straight from education, a step which we often see being one of the most difficult to make in a candidate's career.

She hails from Springfield, Illinois, was inducted into the Sacred Heart - Griffin High School Hall of Fame in 2010, attended the University of Virginia, where she was President of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and has served since graduation on the Class of 1983 Class Reunion Committee; attended Washington & Lee School of Law, where she was named Most Outstanding Woman Law Student, resurrected the Women Law Students Organization and was the first female Executive Committee representative for the honor system for both the undergraduate and graduate students since the founding in 1749.

Differential selection is measured by including respondent's gender (female; male), respondent's education at the time of entry into marriage (high school graduate; some college; college graduate), spouse's education at the time of entry into marriage (less than high school education; high school graduate; attended but did not complete college; college graduate), father's occupation (unskilled labor; farming; skilled labor; white collar; professional), and childhood health (fair or less; good; excellent).