MARK PERRY: Higher education data on college degrees for the Class of 2012 confirm a huge and persistent gender [sic] degree gap.

Milestone: For the first time ever, women in 2012 earned more than one million bachelor’s degrees (1,025,729). In contrast, men earned only 765,317 bachelor’s degrees in 2012 (see above).

Q: Now that women completely dominate higher education and have earned more college degrees than men all levels for the last 7 years, is there still really a need for more than 500 colleges and universities in the US to have “Women’s Centers?