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[Mrsriley72]

I believed that History was primarily a male dominated interest, and
that women did not often choose careers relating to this field; nor
did women often choose history as a college major. Someone recently
told me differnetly, and that women supposedly account for about 40%
of history majors... Still, I find it hard to belive. Does anyone
have any idea if History is a common or uncommon choice as a female
major? Anyone have any hard data on this?

Thanks

[Out West]

Read the following paragraph. It was from the following site Isn't google
wonderful, since I've learned exactly how to use it I can find stuff I want
in just a second:):
-B

http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:cOewt-ZEJeUJ:www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2294/1999_May/55844305/p6/article.jhtml%3Fterm%3D+history+%2Bmajors+percentage+female&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Percentage Data

Actual and Estimated Percentages of Female and Male Students in Feminine and
Masculine Majors. By design, six majors had a greater percentage of female
students and six majors were male-dominated. The greatest percentage of
female compared to male college students was found in Psychology, followed
by Art, Communication, English, Biology, and Business. Computer Science was
the most male-dominated major followed by Mathematics, Chemistry, History,
Political Science, and Music. Participants believed that the most feminine
major was English followed by Psychology, Communication, Music, and Art.
Computer Science was considered the most masculine major followed by
Chemistry, Business, History, Mathematics, Political Science, and Biology.
These majors will henceforth be referred to as feminine and masculine
majors, respectively. It should be noted that "feminine" and "masculine"
refer to participants' perceptions of which gender is more likely to major
in a particular subject. These terms are not synonymous with the actual
predominance of a gender in a particular major because participants'
categorizations of a major as feminine or masculine were not entirely
correct. They mistakenly believed that Music was female-dominated and that
Biology and Business were male-dominated majors, resulting in five feminine
and seven masculine majors. Table I lists participants' estimates and the
actual percentage of female students for all 12 majors. Table II summarizes
this information for feminine and masculine majors.

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[Out West]

look at the whole article for the atual percentages. -B

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