US Females' improvements in education and society

Interesting:
-Young Women's Pay Now Exceeds Male Peers'
-Girls are exceeding boys in school. Almost 90% of valedictorians are girls, college students are now almost 60% female and growing.
-More women than men got PhDs in 2009 and women have long outnumbered men in earning master's degrees
-Between 1995 and 2004, there was a 30% increase in the number of science and engineering BAs awarded to female US citizens, which is 2.5 times the growth of male American citizens. The number of physics BAs grew 36% for women, 8 times the increase for men. In engineering, the number of degrees grew 19% for women even as it dropped 1% for men. The number of electrical engineering degrees grew 35% for women which is 1.6 times the growth for men. Now I admit that electrical engineering is a field where there aren't alot of women but a 35% growth is definitely good. (source: Education Week, edweek.org)