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"The combination of being a woman and having a partner that is also highly educated is tricky," she said. "Very few universities have dual spousal hiring, and it's very complicated to get both people stimulating jobs in the same town, and one partner has to make a sacrifice to stay together."

While women have earned the majority of doctorates awarded in education and humanities, Nerad said social and biological sciences were split evenly in 2002, and female engineering doctorates fell short of 20%.

"The number of successful women who have had Ph.D.s awarded are not medical," Nerad said. "But women earning doctorates in 2002 made an increase in all fields."

SED is sponsored by six federal agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Department of Education. Data is compiled by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, and used to spot trends in Ph.D. recipients.

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