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Yay, the oppression of women is finally ending altogether. Now women are afforded more opportunities than ever before. Slowly, things are changing!!
The reason it is still a man's world is that previous generations of men earned more college degrees than previous generations of women. However, as women's academic achievement soars, the male advantage will gradually end and the female advantage will begin.
to be honest, I think that the gap between men and women professionally has already disappeared. it did long ago.
the whole gender gap argument is bullshit and has always been bullshit (women make 70cents to the man dollar). I would posit that it is not gender discrimination that contributes to the pay gap, but is women's own choice to enter into the institution of marriage/child birth. if one were to look at ages 18-24 and use youth as a proxy for individual not touched by the institution of marriage, you would see no difference in pay wages. additionally, and here's the ringer, if you look at men versus women who have never been touched by marriage (never been married/divorced/had children) you will see no difference as well.
when women enter into marriages (which they do willingly) and choose to have children (again, which they do willingly) they are making a choice that says the role of wife/mother is greater than that of occupational success. having to forfeit years of their life to family makes it impossible for most women to enter into and stay into certain fields that change quickly over time (the hard sciences, research, law) or achieve posts that take a long time to reach (female partners, executives) etc.
as such, women tend to gravitate towards positions where taking a few years of their life to raise children or devote to families will not hamper their reentry to the job market.
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Women, now outnumber men in college by four to three. In absolute numbers, more men are attending college than ever before. However, the rate of increase among men has been one-sixth that of women over the past 20 years. So it's not that more women are attending college; the problem is that men aren't keeping pace with them.
the questions one must ask about this statistic (if it is true) is which degrees are they seeking.
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Girls are excelling; boys are underachieving. The longer students are in school, the wider the gap becomes.
Boys' academic performance relative to girls has been plummeting for decades. Boys are more likely than girls to earn poor grades, be held back a grade, have a learning disability, form a negative attitude toward school, get suspended or expelled, or drop out of school.
again, this may be true. if it is, I would say there are other variables that are being overlooked...perhaps the sexes should not be treated equally in education. it may lead to problems and like trying and make one sex as...placid as the other through the use of pharmaceuticals.
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Women have a growing influence on the fields of law and government. They represent half of law school students and one-third of lawyers. By 2050, they're projected to represent 60% of law school students. Women constitute half of medical school students and one-fourth of physicians. They're projected to constitute 70% of medical school students and the majority of physicians by 2050. According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, women are starting businesses at twice the rate of men. They're also rapidly rising into managerial and administrative positions.
In short, women are becoming richer and more powerful - and this is a good thing for America. Fueling this trend is the growing number of women earning college degrees. More education pays off in a big way. Those with a bachelor's degree earn, on average, nearly twice what those with just a high school diploma earn in a year, and roughly $1 million more over a lifetime.
Hillary Clinton came as close as one possibly could to becoming the Democratic nominee for president. Sarah Palin made history as the Republican Party's first female candidate for vice president. Nancy Pelosi was elected as the first female speaker of the House. There are now more female senators, congresswomen, and state legislators than ever before.
I would not suggest that winning national popularity contests are adding to the merits of any sex.
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Among 25- to 29-year-olds, 33% of women have earned at least a bachelor's degree compared with just 23% of men. This is the first generation of women to be more educated than their male counterparts. This shift means that women will increasingly get the high-paid jobs while men will experience a drop in earnings. This is already happening. Men in their 30s are the first generation to earn significantly less income than their fathers' generation did at the same age.
again, too many ignored variables to list...
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As the number of jobs that require little education decreases, more and more men will become unemployed. In the current economy, unemployment is higher and rising faster for men than for women.
perhaps the number of jobs that require little eductaion (manufacturing and production) are required, and the idea that this trend will continue (which was only upheld by the belief that an economy can grow through credit expansion as opposed to production) is erroneous.
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Some may argue that it's still a man's world. After all, men still wield more power and earn more money than women. This is all true - for now.
But a change is coming.
perhaps. I care very little whether or not men or women make more money. all I care is that it is in an environment where each person has the ability to rise as far as their abilities/ambition can take them. I will suggest that it will always be a 'man's world'. education has been available to both sexes for a long time now. if I were to ask you to look at winners of the Field's Medal or Nobel Prize (the Nobel Prize in real categories like the hard sciences, not sissy stuff like poetry), I think you will see that statistics about the population of campuses mean little. what is more, if you were to list the great classical performers, let's say cellists, of the past century, I think you'd have a hard time listing more than one female.
this is how I view the sexes, (I'm stealing this from a man named Walter Block). men are nature/god's crap shoot and women are nature/god's insurance policy (this does fit certain evolutionary models concerning humans as well). men commit more crimes, there are more men in mental institutions, there are more men in prison...but on the other hand, there are more men who have wont he field's medal/nobel prize, more men chessmasters (I can only think of two females who have made a name for themselves in chess and they were sisters), there are mroe men ceo's, etc. we tend to occupy both the ends of the graph whereas women tend to gravitate towards the middle...which is a good thing. if our baby makers aren't stable then the future of our species is grim.
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