Which Statement Most Accurately Reflects Current Gender Disparities in Graduate

question 7

Multiple Choice

Which statement most accurately reflects current gender disparities in graduate education for psychologists?

• A) Although women have typically been the majority of students applying to graduate psychology programs, women have only recently become the majority of students in all graduate psychology programs.
• B) While women make up more than two-thirds of students in counseling and clinical psychology graduate programs, women make up less than half of the graduate faculty in those fields.
• C) Although women continue to make up the majority of students in graduate psychology programs, they have only recently become the majority of faculty in graduate programs.
• D) Women currently make up almost half of the students in clinical and counseling psychology programs and are nearly two-thirds of the graduate faculty in those areas.

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