Female US Doctorates in Science and Engineering Continue to Climb. (December 14, 2010)

The following analysis from the US' National Science Foundation has been reported in Nature:

A 1.6% jump in doctorates awarded in the United States last year was almost entirely the result of more women gaining science and engineering PhDs — up 4.3% (since 2008) to 13,593 (see chart). Ethnic minorities earning PhDs were up 6.4% from 2008 and 34.3% from 2004, to 4,719. But job prospects for these new doctorate holders are less rosy. In some fields, science and engineering PhDs were slightly less likely to have a postdoc or other job lined up, compared with 2008.