Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Gender Degree Gap and The Great Mancession

Mark Perry reports:
By 1981, women earned 50% of all college degrees, and in almost every since then have increased their share of all degrees to the current level of 58.61%, which is down slightly from the peak of 59.06% in 2007.
and:
For 249 consecutive months between December 1959 and August 1980, the female jobless rate was below the male jobless rate.