The Wash­ing­ton Post reports that more women than men earned doc­tor­ates for the first time. The arti­cle reports that,  “Men retained the lead in doc­toral degrees until 2008, largely through their dom­i­nance in engi­neer­ing, math­e­mat­ics and the phys­i­cal sci­ences. They still earn nearly 80 per­cent of engi­neer­ing doctorates.”