T he number of psychology degrees awarded to women has far outpaced the number going to men, according to the latest data on doctoral recipients gathered by APA's Research Office. Women are just as satisfied with the job market as men.
Women carry lower levels of tuition debt.
Not surprisingly, the survey also found that women earned just over two-thirds of the doctorates awarded in psychology in 1997. Women were more highly represented among blacks, Hispanics and Asian-Americans than among white or Native American new doctorates. Analyses of levels of debt related to graduate education indicated that women with doctorates in the health-service provider subfields reported substantially lower median levels of debt than did men in those subfields, and there were essentially no differences in the levels of debt between women and men in the research and other subfields. New doctorates in the research and other subfields reported significantly lower levels of graduate debt, regardless of gender. There were moderate gender differences noted in subfield analyses.