Question: Who earns academic degrees? How do women and men compare in the pursuit of academic degrees? The table below presents counts (in thousands) from the Statistical Abstract on degrees earned in 2005 categorized by the level of the degree and the gender of the recipient.
(a) How many people earned bachelor's degrees?
(b) What percentage of each level of degree is earned by women? Write a brief description of what the data show about the relationship between gender and degree level.