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1 DOCTORAL POPULATION IN THE HUMANITIES
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... Doctorates in history or art history The next largest field was modern languages and literature at 16 percent. Also at 16 percent were the disciplines combined under the label "other humanities." The smallest distinct fields were art history (3 percent)
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... ; only 17 percent of the doctorates in philosophy were women. · The proportion of female humanities Ph.D.s grew from 17 percent of the group who earned their degrees more than 25 years earlier to nearly half of the doctorates from the most recent 5-year cohort (see Table 31.
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... · The proportion of humanities Ph.D.s who were minorities grew from 3 percent of those who earned degrees more than 25 years earlier to ~ ~ percent of the doctorates eamed in the past 5 years. Age in 1995 · Of ah humanities doctorates, 28 percent were age 44 or under in 1995.
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... . Ten percent of the doctorates earned in the past 5 years were awarded to foreign citizens, up from only 1 percent of those earning their degrees more than 25 years earlier.
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