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Burrelli said NSF was still collecting data for 2003, but that the drop in men enrolled in graduate programs has leveled out, as opposed to decreases in the past decade.

Maresi Nerad, faculty at the University of Washington, director of The Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education and associate dean for research at University of Wisconsin graduate schools, believes the results showcase a different trend entirely.

"In actuality, numbers of women Ph.D.s have increased," Nerad said. "Federal agencies have been very good to increase participation in women to earn their doctorates."

CIRGE at the University of Washington conducts research on alumni careers and the effectiveness of graduate programs, both for other graduate schools and the employers of most U.S-trained Ph.D.s.

Nerad said although it is positive that an increasing number of women are earning doctorates, the real problem arises after the qualified women reach the job market.

"If women want to go on and stay in academia, there comes the trouble," she said. "Institutions have done a lot to increase women in doctorate work, but it stops there."

Nerad said that while 61% of all women Ph.D.s had a spouse with a Ph.D., J.D. or M.D. in 2002, only 21% of men have spouses who are highly educated.