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The chart shows the ‘gender convegence’ where the authors noted that more and more female freshmen college students share the same aspiration as their male counterparts in fields like business, law, medicine and engineering.

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In 1966, men were nine times more likely than a women to aspire for a legal career. However they also pointed out that throughtout the 30-year period men have shown a drastic 38 percent decrease in interest for education in law.

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This question was specifically designed to gauge students’ attitudes towards women. It shows that contemparary America’s widespread acceptance toward working mothers and wives was a comparatively radical idea during the late 60s.

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When this question was first asked in the late 1960s, more than 80 percent of college freshmen believed that developing a meaningful philosophy of life was crucial and very important to their life as compared to being very well off financially. However, since then, those two have switched places among the newer cohorts of freshmen.

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According to the authors, grade inflation skyrocketed during late 1960s, as the percentage of grade A- or higher awarded to college students increased precipitously while at the same time the percentage of C+ or below decreased.

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Increasing political disengagement by students, as the authors found that the percentage of students who want to become a ‘community leader’ fell by two-fifths where the percentage of people who wished to join organizations like Peace Corps, dropped by one-fourth.