Gender Diversity

[le_neocon]

I just realized that my application to SIPA became a little more diverse. Amongst the SIPA applicant pool, almost 60% are female, which means its a little different to be male..yippee !!

ok..that was childish

[f_man]

i always wondered about that actually.

after attending the idealist grad fair in SF females seemed to outnumber males 2:1. (yes small sample size, etc. kinds of bias come into play so one can't infer too much.) there were statistics published awhile back on the idealist website that actually reflected this gender breakdown. different schools seem to publish different class admission statistics, but i cant say ive seen a class where females comprised a much smaller minority.

[Kreid]

Judging by most of the schools I've looked at that release this data, it does seem like it's generally 60-70% female in public policy/administration programs.