America Today

Posted : December 15, 2006 at 4:03 pm [America/Los_Angeles]

Among graduate students, 27 percent had at least one foreign-born parent. The number of foreign students from India enrolled in American colleges soared to 80,000 in 2005 from 10,000 in 1976…As recently as 1980, only 12 percent of doctors were women; by 2004, 27 percent were. In 1970, 33,000 men and 2,000 women earned professional degrees; in 2004, the numbers were 42,000 men and 41,000 women.

- NTimes, “Who Americans Are and What They Do, in Census Data”

Interesting stuff.

- Anand

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