Table 2.

Distribution of fields of study for men and women.

Field of study	Women		Men		Sig.	t-statistic
	%	N	%	N
Life sciences	4.3%	51	6.6%	61	***	2.49
Computer science	3.9%	38	7.1%	73	***	3.39
Engineering	2.6%	34	14.4%	165	***	10.08
Hard sciences	4.0%	40	4.5%	54		0.54
Total STEM	14.8%	163	32.6%	353	***	10.35
Health	7.6%	95	3.4%	46	***	4.88
Nursing	6.9%	103	0.0%	0	***	7.62
Social sciences	11.8%	149	10.2%	126		1.07
Business	22.8%	287	27.9%	286	***	2.67
Other major?	36.3%	470	25.6%	320	***	6.52
Total N	1258		1115

Note:

^***significant at 0.001 level,

^**significant at 0.01 level,

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

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