Challenges of Becoming a Scholar: A Study of Doctoral Students' Problems and Well-Being

Table 1

Statistics (2008) of gender distribution and mean age in different disciplines at the University of Helsinki according to statistics Finland and the university’s own statistics.

Faculty	Women	Men	Age (mean)
Arts	66%	34%	42.4
Behavioural sciences	76%	24%	53.1
Medicine	71%	29%	32.3