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MILLS COLLEGE
|
THEN (1990)
|
NOW (2010)
|
|
Undergraduate Enrollment
|
777
|
926
|
|
Students of Color—
Undergraduate
|
20%
|
39%
|
|
Graduate Enrollment
|
264
|
584
|
|
Students of Color—
Graduate
|
8.3%
|
37%
|
| Male Students—Graduate |
21% |
21% |
|
Endowment
|
$71.2 million
|
$176.2 million
(as of 12/31/09)
|
|
Giving to Mills
|
$10.7 million
|
$18.2 million (as of 6/30/09)
|
|
Female Faculty–Full Time
|
55%
|
62%
|
|
Faculty of Color–Full Time
|
5%
|
25%
|
|
U.S. EDUCATION
|
THEN (1990)
|
NOW (2010)
|
|
% of Total Bachelor's
Degrees Granted
to Women
|
53.2%
|
57.8%
(Projected)
|
|
% of Total Master's
Degrees Granted
to Women
|
52.6%
|
59.6%
(Projected)
|
|
% of Total Doctoral
Degrees Granted
to Women
|
36.4%
|
50.9%
(Projected)
|
Source:
The White House Project Report: "Benchmarking Women Leadership"
National Center for Education Statistics
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POP CULTURE
|
THEN (1990)
|
NOW (2010)
|
|
Grammy Awards
Song of the Year
|
"Vision of Love"
by Mariah Carey
|
"Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" by Beyoncé
|
|
Academy Awards
Best Director
|
Kevin Costner for
Dances with Wolves
|
Kathryn Bigelow
for The Hurt Locker.
First woman to ever
win this award.
|
|
Top Television Show
|
The Simpsons
(premiered Dec. 17, 1989)
|
Modern Family
(premiered Sept. 23, 2009)
|
|
Television News Anchors
|
ABC: Peter Jennings
CBS: Dan Rather
NBC: Tom Brokaw
|
ABC: Diane Sawyer
CBS: Katie Couric
NBC: Brian Williams
|
|
Time Magazine
|
Nov. 1, 1990 Cover Story:
"Women: The Road Ahead"
|
Oct 26, 2009 Cover Story:
"The State of the
American Woman"
|
|
Cell Phones
|
First cell phone
manufactured with 2G
technology (1990)
|
Apple releases iPhone 3G
(2009)
|
|
Technology
|
Microsoft releases
Windows 3.0
|
Microsoft releases
Windows 7.0
|
|
WOMEN LEADERS
|
THEN (1990)
|
NOW (2010)
|
|
African American Women
|
Sharon Pratt Kelly elected
first African American
mayor of Washington DC
(November 1990)
|
Michelle Obama becomes
the first African American
First Lady of the United
States (January 2009)
|
|
% of Total Labor Force1
|
47% Women
|
49.9% Women
|
|
Hillary Rodham Clinton
|
Hillary Clinton was the
First Lady of Arkansas
|
Hillary Clinton becomes
67th U.S. Secretary of
State (2009)
|
|
Women in Congress2
|
101st Congress:
1989–91
31 Women
|
111th Congress: 2009–11
95 Women
(Nancy Pelosi as the first woman Speaker of the House)
|
1Source: United States Department of Labor
2Source: The Women's College Coalition
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