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Sexes influenced by different factors when choosing major

By Linze Griebenow | December 1, 2011

Want to be a male nurse? Or a female engineer? At NIU, in 2010, female health professionals outnumbered their male counterparts about four to one. Male engineers outnumber females about nine to one. But gender disparities are more than numbers; culture...