Over the past 3 decades, there has been a significant trend of increasing number of women attending college and earning degrees. New research shows that more women than ever are attending college, at rate much higher than that for men. This trend is strongly pronounced in psychology. Smaller numbers of men are graduating with undergraduate psychology degrees and 82% of people applying to pre-doctoral internships last year were women. Obviously there are still many majors and professions that are male dominated (e.g. hard sciences), but the article highlights the tremendous success of changing US culture 0ver the past 30 years. Furthermore, the trend raises interesting questions about how the world of psychology will change with women quickly becoming the majority of professionals.

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