Do Women Have Educational Advantage?
Education, Misc. May 2nd, 2011Using the US Census data, The Business Journal discovered that women have an educational advantage over men 45 and under.
The gap was especially pronounced in the youngest age groups: 27.3 percent of 25-to-29-year-old women held bachelor’s degrees as their highest educational attainments, compared to 22.6 percent of men. Another 8.5 percent of women in the 25-29 group possessed advanced degrees, as opposed to 5.2 percent of men of the same age.
While the census asks a group range (i.e., 25-29), the information is not broken down by job. I would be curious if this means that STEM related fields have more women in them now? Or is it just that women are getting more degrees in non-STEM fields? What is the job break down? Maybe the Census data can fill in our gaps.
Read more: Women hold educational advantage over men | The Business Journals
Mark Viquesney
August 13th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I think in the field of education we will see some gender trends. More women than men in k-5 grades, more men and older women in specialist jobs, more men teaching high school and college, more women working with students with disabilities, and more women taken nuturing education jobs. These are just my predictions.