Are Women Really Out-Majoring Men?

     So one of the things popping up in the media lately is how women are now earning more degrees than men are (Census Data Shows More Women Than Men Hold College Degrees). The implication of this is that women are becoming more educated than men are. Okay, well maybe, but one thing I am very curious about is, what kind of degrees are these women earning? There are plenty of people who earn college degrees, but as shown by my post below, a lot of them are worthless degrees as well.
     Now there are what you could call the "breadwinner" degrees. These are the degrees that are the toughest, most academically rigorous to get, usually in the fields of engineering, certain of the sciences, economics, finance, and business. Now I attended a university for awhile that has a pretty decent quality engineering school (Rochester Institute of Technology), and one thing I specifically remember was the utter dearth of women in the engineering colleges. I mean finding women in the Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, etc...departments. FORGET IT. Once in awhile you would encounter one, but they were usually so rare (and you usually were so tied up with schoolwork that you were spending all of your time in the engineering colleges) that your reaction was something along the lines of, "WOW a woman!" A good-looking woman in an engineering college was even rarer (and yes I know that is sexist as hell, but at least where I was, it was true---all the good-looking women were in other colleges).
     I saw the same thing in the colleges of mathematics and sciences as well. You would find more women in the sciences such as biology and chemistry for example, but otherwise, there still seemed to be a dearth. The business school seemed to have a higher proportion of women as well. It seemed to be that in engineering, there were no women, in the sciences, where there were more women, you'd find them mostly in biology and chemistry, but very few in physics, and in the business school, where there also were more women, they'd be in things like management, marketing, etc...but not so much in finance or economics.
     The interesting thing was, the schools in which you would encounter an absolute FLOOD of women, were the liberal arts school and the arts school. I was literally stunned at the number of women (and good-looking women at that!) that I saw when I had to go into a few of these schools for some of the required courses I was taking.
     Going back to the start of my post then, yes, the data may show women are earning far more degrees than men, but are they out-earning men in the degrees that actually make real money and produce things in society? Things like engineering, mathematics, economics, finance, etc...if they are not, then while they might be earning more degrees than men, in terms of the skills and degrees that really matter in society, one would probably conclude that it is men who still dominate.
     One also only needs to look at the domination of men in the professorships of these fields. One will find plenty of women in the liberal arts professorships alongside the men, but when you look at the professorships of the engineering fields, the sciences, economics and finance, and so forth, they are all dominated by men. On Wall Street to. Women in high positions of finance on Wall Street are rare. I don't know about the corporate world, but I'd imagine it's the same.
     If anyone has any hard data on this issue, I'd be plenty interested to see it. I suppose what one would need to look at is what percentage of each type of engineering degree and each type of science degree and so forth, go to men versus women.