Women’s History Month: Female Representation Across Academic Fields 

From the PA State Data Center

According to analysis of the 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), women accounted for at least 80 percent of graduates in eight degree fields with at least 10,000 graduates.

Of those 25 years of age and over with a Bachelor’s degree or higher, nine-out-of-ten graduates of Communication Disorders Science, Early Childhood Education, Nursing, and Family and Consumer Science are women. Women accounted for less than 20 percent of graduates in six degree fields with at least 10,000 graduates, mainly engineering fields.

Click here to see female representation across all degree fields with at least 10,000 graduates.