The College Degree Gap: Young Women Outnumber Men at Every Level

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2010-04-26 00:23

Article here.

'The National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) celebrated Equal Pay Day this week to bring attention to the gap between men’s and women’s wages. On the very same day that Equal Pay Day was supposed to highlight alleged wage discrimination against women, the Census Bureau released data showing that there is a huge gender college degree gap in favor of women for 25- to 29-year-olds (see chart below).

Women in this age group hold a majority of college degrees at all levels, from associate’s degrees to professional degrees (MD, DDS, and law) and doctoral degrees (PhD and EdD). There are now 138 women holding advanced degrees (master’s and higher) for every 100 men with those degrees. The Census Bureau predicts that “more women than men are expected to occupy professions such as doctors, lawyers, and college professors as they represent approximately 58 percent of young adults, age 25 to 29, who hold an advanced degree.”

So at the time that American women are being told by the NCPE that they remain victims of ongoing wage discrimination in the workplace because they are “segregated into a few low-paying occupations,” the new census report presents a much more optimistic picture of unprecedented opportunities for women. Given their amazing educational achievements, young women are apparently not buying into the NCPE story of victimization and discrimination; they are too busy earning degrees in record numbers, and leaving their male counterparts behind.'

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See this page:

http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html

It says for age groups 15-19 and 10-24 in the US, there are ~.17% (as taken together) more males as a measure of the total pop'n than females.

The implication is that if this trend of females outearning males in degrees were due largely or merely to a larger number of females in these age groups than males, it could be dismissed as evidence that girls were simply now being fairly represented in the number of degree-earners. But such is not the case. In fact it shows that even though males outnumber females in these age groups, the females are still way outearning males for college degrees at all levels to a very significant degree.

So is there a problem here, vis-a-vis an education gap for males? Ask a feminists and of course she or he will say no. Ask the gov't and they will say no because as we know, they have many feminists working for them. But ask an MRA and he or she will tell you the truth.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2010-04-26 00:44