The proportion of women among students enrolled in higher education programs has increased over the past decades. This is partly shown by the fact that in 1959, only 11 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college, while in 1981, 30 percent of the women between twenty and twenty-one were enrolled in college.

To evaluate the argument above, it would be most useful to compare 1959 and 1981 with regard to which of the following characteristics?

• AThe percentage of women between twenty and twenty-one who were not enrolled in college  
• BThe percentage of women between twenty and twenty-five who graduated from college  
• CThe percentage of women who, after attending college, entered highly paid professions  
• DThe percentage of men between twenty and twenty-one who were enrolled in college  
• EThe percentage of men who graduated from high school