The Gender Gap in Professional Degree Awards to Blacks
The year 1989 was the first year that black women earned more professional degree awards than black men. Today the gender gap in professional degree awards to African Americans is large but not as wide as in bachelor’s and master’s degree attainments. In 2005 black women earned 64 percent of all professional degrees awarded to African Americans, up from 62 percent the previous year.
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