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Tips for women's success in earning a doctorate.

Women in Higher Education

| July 01, 2004 | Morris, Amy; Rogers, Meredith; Ketelhut, Diane | COPYRIGHT 2004 Women in Higher Education. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A graduate student's life is often filled with sleepless nights, pressure and little extra cash. In fact, only 52% of women actually complete their doctoral degrees.

To increase women's odds of success, grad students Amy Morris from University of Nevada at Los Vegas, Meredith A. Rogers from the University of Missouri at Columbia, and Diane Ketelhut from the Harvard University MA graduate school of education, offered tips for completing a graduate program at the American Educational Research Association conference (AERA) conference in San Diego in April.

Quoting Ronald T. Azuma, Morris compared graduate students to Walt Disney's seven dwarves: "In the ...

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