Master's Degrees By Gender from 1949 - 2006

According to the NCES:

1939-40:
M: 16,508
F: 10,223

1949-50:
M:41,220
F:16,963

1959-60:
M:50,898
F:23,537

1969-70:
M:125,624
F:82,667

1979-80:
M:150,749
F:147,332

1989-90:
M:153,653
F: 170,648

1999-2000:
M:191,792
F:265,264

2005-6:
M:237,896
F: 356,169

Bachelor's Gender Stats, by decade, from 1949 to 2006

Bachelor degrees awarded in the U.S. by gender, according to the NCES:

BACHELOR DEGREES
1939-40:
M: 109,546
F: 76,954

1949-50:
M:328,841
F:103,217

1959-60:
M:254,063
F:138,377

1969-70:
M:451,097
F: 341,219

1979-80:
M:473,611
F: 455,806

1989-90:
M:491,696
F: 559,648

1999-2000:
M:530,367
F:707,508

2005-6
M:630,600
F: 854,642

NCES Info on degrees conferred by gender

Interesting Information from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center on Education Statistics. These data are from 2002-2003 (the most recent year for which they have information). It breaks down degrees conferred by gender. Interestingly, women lead in all categories but Doctoral degrees.

Degrees conferred and percentage distribution by Title IV degree-granting institutions, by level of degree, sex, and race/ethnicity: United States, academic year 2002-03
Sex and race/ethnicity	Total		Bachelor's		Master's		Doctor's1
	Number	Percent of total	Number	Percent of total	Number	Percent of total	Number	Percent of total
All institutions	2,620,894	100.0	1,348,503	100.0	512,645	100.0	46,024	100.0
Sex
Men	1,103,695	42.1	573,079	42.5	211,381	41.2	24,341	52.9
Women	1,517,199	57.9	775,424	57.5	301,264	58.8	21,683	47.1

Are Colleges Intentionally Hostile to Men?

Here is what Instapundit Glenn Reynolds thinks may be the problem

Where the boy's aren't

Journalism - Jobs and Retention

More from NMWE.

So, while it may seem that women are getting lots of jobs at the entry level (and that's a good thing), it doesn't seem to balance out over the long run. Are women journalists getting the jobs on the ground floor and leaving them later for personal reasons (families, etc), or are they getting the jobs at the entry level but just not getting the promotions? I'd be interested to see how this compares to other industries.

McCormick Tribune New Media Women Entrepeneurs

A great site courtesy of Mary Fran Gleason:

http://www.newmediawomen.org/

From their site:

The McCormick Tribune New Media Women Entrepreneurs project seeks to spotlight the creative assets of women and help address issues of opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism. In addition to providing seed funding for new women-led news ideas, it will:

* Honor a New Media Woman Entrepreneur of the Year in an awards program.
* Research issues women's consumption and creation of news.
* Produce a day-long Women Entrepreneurs Summit

It is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. J-Lab helps news organizations and citizens use new media technologies to create fresh ways for people to participate in public life. It also administers the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, the Knight Citizen News Network and the New Voices community media grant program. Its projects are supported with grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The McCormick Tribune Foundation supports free, vigorous and diverse news media that provide citizens the vital information they need to make reasoned decisions in a democracy. The Journalism Program is committed to non-profits that support leadership in news organizations, develop future journalists and strengthen the quality of journalism.

Pew research worth reading:

The Great Divide: Female Leadership in U.S. Newsrooms (2002). Just one in five the of nation’s top female editors said they definitely wanted to move up in the news industry, and almost one in two (45 percent) are looking to change newsrooms or leave the business altogether. This report by the Pew Center and API finds that the great divide in newsrooms is not between women and men, but between two subsets of women: the career-confident and career-conflicted.

The site has a lot of great resources (and "she-sources," as they call them)... but more from that bastion of modern, post-modern, and third-wave feminism at Columbia - Barnard - later.

For a Subjective Analysis

This is the article from Tom Chiarella, fiction editor and sometimes opinion man for Esquire.

http://www.esquire.com/features/the-state-of-the-american-man/ESQ0706SOTAMBOYS_94