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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems that in the female-dominated professions there is less push to give the professional degree a doctorate.  Which speaks volumes about sexist assumptions in our society.

Yes the Big Three professional degrees (JD, MD, DDS) are now roughly at gender-parity but female-dominated fields like Elementary Education, Social Work or Librarianship they say a Master's is sufficient.  [/quote]

I'm not sure about that. Have any masters become doctorates in the last 40 years? I certainly agree the professions with doctorates have greater gender equality problems, but I think most of the push to create professional doctorates predates women being allowed to be "professionals" at all.[/quote]

That's kind of the point, isn't it?  40 years ago most social workers and librarians were women, but their professional degrees were (and are) "mere" masters.  [/quote]

I'm saying 40 is the most recent case. Most of the professional degrees are considerably older, and in fact pre-date the modern Ph.D. [/quote]

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