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A 13M gender college degree gap since 1982 favoring women

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Re: A 13M gender college degree gap since 1982 favoring women

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Its certainly interesting, but is also a perfectly acceptable outcome. Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of outcome. Not directly related, but I wonder what a chart would look like if you compared the absolute value of a college degree with this same time span. Its anecdotal, but success doesn't seem tied to college degrees in my experience. At this point I'd only get a degree if absolutely required by s…

The whole point of the article is that the ostensible goal of equality of outcome was used to justify moving away from equality of opportunity.

"Given the phenomenal academic success of women in higher education over the last 35 years, reflected in an eye-popping cumulative gender college degree gap of 13 million more college degrees for women than men, how do we justify the continued gender favoritism for college women in terms of female-only scholarships, awards, fellowships, programs and many other campus resources?"

If we had true "equality of opportunity" there wouldn't be either male-only scholarships or female-only scholarships, etc. I totally agree with your point that equality of opportunity doesn't mean equality of outcome, but this isn't what equality of opportunity looks like either.

Re: A 13M gender college degree gap since 1982 favoring women

#14

Its certainly interesting, but is also a perfectly acceptable outcome. Equality of opportunity does not mean equality of outcome. Not directly related, but I wonder what a chart would look like if you compared the absolute value of a college degree with this same time span. Its anecdotal, but success doesn't seem tied to college degrees in my experience. At this point I'd only get a degree if absolutely required by s…

The whole point of the article is that the ostensible goal of equality of outcome was used to justify moving away from equality of opportunity. "Given the phenomenal academic success of women in higher education over the last 35 years, reflected in an eye-popping cumulative gender college degree gap of 13 million more college degrees for women than men, how do we justify the continued gender favoritism for college wo…

Exactly there is a festering double standard that needs highlighting and correction when the pendulum swings the other way.

Re: A 13M gender college degree gap since 1982 favoring women

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So... women get more degrees than men, but men get paid more. Therefore... American Higher Educashin is worthless.

"Men get paid more" is a hard argument to make, you need to factor in which job they take, how much they work, how aggressive they negotiate etc.

If you do that, the gender pay gap all but goes away.

That aside, there's a trend of women in urban areas out-earning men. However, that won't lead to every woman out-earning every man. A software engineer is still going to make more money than a teacher.

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