the Seahawk \ NEWS | January 9,2003
Female presence rising in some areas
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Kiara Jones
Staff Writer
More women are showing up in the
medical and law fields than ever before.
In areas of study
that have not shown
much female pres
ence in the past,
women are now
appearing in num
bers sometimes
greater than men.
“Basically
women are increas
ing both their enroll
ment and graduation
and practice rates,”
said Jennifer Horan,
lecturer in the politi
cal science depart
ment at UNCW.
“There is a high
demand for women
doctors, for example,
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nificantly over the past 50 years. A
woman’s place was previously seen as at
home with the children, but it is now in
areas such as medical school, law school,
doctors’ offices and
courtrooms.
According to
Horan, women
started entering
schools of higher
education in the
1800s, but the
admissions and
societal expectation
barriers were
removed in the
1970s. In 1963,
females represented
only 4 percent of the
law school enroll
ment, but in 2001,
represented 49 per
cent.
Women’s enroll-
OB/GYN, and they’ve actually started to
dominate this field.”
The roles of women have evolved sig-
ment in undergraduate programs often sur
passes men. According to Yale student
body characteristics, 177 females received
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June 2001, outnumbering men by approxi
mately 1 percent.
There is a 55 percent female enrollment
in the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Law. UNC-CH’s
graduate school also has a high female per
centage at 62 percent, as opposed to men
who come in at 38 percent.
A recent report from the National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES) stated that
women are more likely than men to desire
to continue their education, to enroll in col
lege and to persist in obtaining a degree.
Having women in the medical field
seems to be embraced by many. Kenneth
Sutton, junior in the biology department at
UNC-CH who is training to be a pediatric
doctor said, “I see women as more compas
sionate than men, so I see their increase in
enrollment in medical school as a good
thing.”
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