In the continuation of an eight-year trend, American women earned far more doctoral degrees than men in 2016. Women earned majority of doctoral degrees for 8th straight yr and outnumber men in grad school 135 to 100 https://t.co/SHKGAGNim1 @chsommers — Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) September 28, 2017 In 2016, there were 135 women enrolled in graduate school for every 100 men. Women earned 400 master’s degrees in health sciences majors for every 100 men. According to a December 2016 New York Times report, there are now more women in law school than men. “If we accept the results […] the gender-industry gap is focused on the wrong thing,” George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok argued in response to these developments in higher education. “The real gender gap is that men are having trouble competing everywhere except in STEM.” Writing for the American Enterprise Institute Blog, economist Mark Perry argues that men became the “second sex” in higher education in 2009: For the eighth year in a row, women earned a majority of doctoral degrees awarded at US universities in 2016. Of the 78,744 doctoral degrees awarded in 2016 (Table B.25), women earned 40,407 of those degrees and 52.1% of the total, compared to
