Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for male and female college graduates.

	Column A		Column B
	All college graduates		STEM majors
	Women	Men	Women	Men
STEM majors	14.8%	32.6%***	100.0%c	100.0%d
Expect to work in STEM occupation in 5 years	9.8%	14.6%***	20.8%c	30.3%***d
Expect to work in STEM occupation at 35	12.1%	21.7%	23.0%c	41.4%***d
Attitudes (Measured in 1979)
Family expectations
Expect to marry early (before age 25)	53.9%	39.0%***	45.1%c	40.3%
Expect to marry in late twenties (ages 25 to 29)	40.7%	52.1%***	47.5%	49.4%
Expect to delay marriage (past age 30)	5.4%	8.9%***	7.5%	10.3%
Expect to have no children	7.6%	4.9%***	8.1%	3.2%***
Expect to have one child	7.7%	3.6%***	5.2%	4.3%
Expect to have two children	57.4%	60.6%	41.5%c	45.2%d
Expect to have three or more children	27.3%	30.9%	31.0%	34.3%
Gender Ideology (mean value)b	3.03	2.84***	3.11c	2.84***
Family socialization
% with father in a STEM fielda	11.8%	11.0%	19.3%c	15.4%d
Mother’s mean years of school	13.15	13.26	13.59c	13.27
Indvidual attributes
Race/Ethnicity/Nativity
% Non-Hispanic White	83.9%	85.1%	84.4%	92.7%d
% Black	8.2%	7.1%	10.1%	3.3%***
% Hispanic	3.7%	3.1%	5.5%	4.0%
% Foreign-Born	4.2%	4.7%	6.6%	5.4%
Age (Mean)	24.82	24.36***	24.65	24.07
Married at degree completion	17.8%	15.4%	21.5%	12.2%***
Have children by degree completion	12.1%	7.4%***	11.3%	6.7%
Degree year
1977–1981	21.4%	21.0%	15.4%c	20.4%***
1982–1984	32.0%	33.8%	34.6%	37.1%
1985–1987	23.3%	27.4%**	32.9%c	28.9%
1988 or later	23.3%	17.8%***	17.1%	13.6%d
N	1258	1115	163	353

Note: Gender differences within category, with

^***significant at 0.001 level,

^**significant at 0.01 level,

^*significant at 0.05 level (two-tailed test).

Note: NLSY 1979 sample of college graduates, All values are weighted by 1979 cross-sectional weights.

^aFor STEM occupations, see Appendix A.

^bHigher values indicate more liberal attitudes.

^cIndicates significant difference between total women and female STEM majors.

^dIndicates significant difference between total men and male STEM majors.