Women are catching up to men in college degrees<– who would’ve guessed?
According to the US Census Bureau:
The figures gathered from household surveys showed about 33 percent of young women aged between 25 and 29 had bachelor degrees or higher, compared with 26 percent of men in the same age bracket. … The percentage of men over 25 with bachelor’s degrees or higher was 30 percent compared to 28 percent of women, but their lead was down one percent from a year earlier.
Very interesting. Of course, I wanted to see if this was limited to the US or a Global phenomenon … so I did a little more digging. Fortune Magazine: Not so lazy, after all provides evidence that there are reasons why getting an education makes more sense for US women than for German women.
In America it’s easy to buy prepared meals, child care, and such, so it’s “easy for educated women to work in the market,” as Freeman and Schettkat observe, whereas in Germany, “the lack of such alternatives makes full-time employment of women difficult.” Thus, German women have far weaker incentives to go to college. In the U.S., 22% of working-age women hold bachelor’s degrees, but in Germany only 11% do.
I’m not sure that I would go so far as to say it’s easy (clearly the author is a man) … but there are lots of alternatives that make it possible to work outside the home and outsource some of the household tasks to others. This makes women even better bets in the workplace … we will not only be as well educated, but we will also bring our experience at delegating to the table.
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