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Gender Gap in Education
August 30, 2007
Children need models rather than critics.
-Joseph Joubert

A report in Work & Family Life (February 2005; [email protected]) suggests that the gender gap in education is widening:

“Among Americans in the 25 to 34 age cohort, 24% more women than men have earned an associate’s degree; 14% more women than men hold bachelor degrees; and 21% more women than men have advanced degrees. In all, more than 2 million men ages 25 to 34 could have earned a high school diploma, two-year, four-year, or graduate degree if they had chosen to stay in school as women did.”




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Michele Lopez · August 30, 2007
Head Start
Romulus, MI, United States


But yet men still make more money than women.

Verna Smith · August 30, 2007
Mingo CAP, Inc. Head Start
Williamson, WV, United States


In the past 30 years women have been freed from many social restrictions such as wife and mother must have breakfast ready for husband and children before they arise in the morning and have the house cleaned and supper on the table when they walk through the door in the evening, leaving women feeling less guilty and (mentally) free to persue a life outside the home. It is also more acceptable for women to marry and have chilren later in life or to choose not to have children at all. Traditions have changed for men also. House husband is now a socially accepted profession. Statistics do not always tell the whole story. The question for me is the quality for life for everyone. Why aren't men choosing to further their education? Men have in the past have always been able to make a living for their family without an education, working in construction, in the coal mines, timber, etc. In the past jobs were given to women only if employers could not get a man to do the job, so women knew that getting a better education would stack the deck in their favor. A lot has changed to affect the statistics in the article.



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