 College graduate women greatly increased their education in professional schools; the fraction female among first-year law and medical school students, for example, was 10 percent in 1970 but rose to 40 percent by 1990.Goldin provides a detailed account of women at Harvard University in the years 1970, 1980, and 1990 within the study.It showed a great increase in the percentage of female students, and a significant decrease in the percentage of female students who were married two years after receiving their degree.