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In the United States, about six out of ten students
in graduate schools are women. The same is true of
today's young adults who already have a degree
beyond college. As a result, the Census Bureau
expects that more women than men will hold
professions such as doctors, lawyers and professors.
Men had faster growth rates than women in going to
graduate school in two thousand nine. Still, women
earned sixty percent of the master's degrees. That
was the level of about ninety percent of all the
graduate degrees awarded. But a new report says the
two thousand eight-two thousand nine academic year
marked a change. Women also earned fifty and
four-tenths percent of the doctorate degrees. The
Council of Graduate Schools says this was the first
year ever that women earned more doctorates than
men. The largest share of all doctorates that year,
forty-two percent, were in education, engineering,
and biological and agricultural sciences. But the
report says between nineteen ninety-nine and two
thousand nine, graduate enrollment increased in all
subject areas. The fastest growth was in health
sciences, business and engineering. In two thousand
nine, graduate schools reported strong growth of six
percent in first-time students from the United
States. But enrollment of new international students
decreased by about two percent -- the first drop
since two thousand four. The share of foreign new
students in graduate schools fell from eighteen
percent to sixteen and a half percent.In other news,
President Obama marked the new school year in
September with a speech from a school in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President Obama told
students they need to work hard in school "because
an education has never been more important than it
is today." He said: "The farther you go in school,
the farther you're going to go in life." He also
said this is a time when other countries are
competing with us like never before. He said
students around the world in Beijing, China, or
Bangalore, India, are working harder than ever, and
doing better than ever. The president told the
students: "Your success in school is not just going
to determine your success, it's going to determine
America's success in the twenty-first century." For
VOA Special English I'm Alex Villarreal. You can
find our programs at voaspecialenglish.com and on
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