A slow-down in rising campus gender gaps?
That’s what the federal Department of Education predicts, based on new higher education numbers. The possible slowdown was discussed in this earlier posting. In earlier projections, for example, BA recipients in the year 2016-17 were supposed to average more than 60% female. In the new projections, that rests at 58%.
Significant? Hard to say. The numbers-gatherers at the federal Department of Education don’t speculate on significance. The source of the shift is found in the “hard count” of students taken in the fall of 2006. At that point, the gender gaps were not as severe as predicted.
For all the data, see table 28 in this report.
Will the slackening rise in the gap hold? We won’t know until next summer when there’s a new hard count.
