March 11, 2005

More College Women

Female students have gone from being a minority to a majority of undergraduate enrollments in the United States over the last generation, according to a report released last week by the National Center for Education Statistics.

The report, which draws on data from government agencies and several continuing studies, also says that the trends are more apparent among some groups than others. For example, while women made up 56 percent of all undergraduates in 2001 (up from 42 percent in

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