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theatlantic: Why Women Will Rule the Economy of the Future Women are poised to dominate our workforce in the coming years. With each passing decade, more Americans have gone to school and earned a higher degree. But as shown in this chart above, which I compiled from data in a pair of annual reports released by the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly all of that progress since 1975 has been among females (in GREEN). Women passed men in bachelor’s attainment in 1995 and haven’t looked back since. By 2000, a higher share of females were earning Master’s degrees, where they now out-compete males 8.8 percent to 5.1 percent. The pattern has been similar across every racial demographic. Among whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, women have simply made more progress.   Read more. [Image: Jordan Weissmann]

theatlantic:

Why Women Will Rule the Economy of the Future

Women are poised to dominate our workforce in the coming years. With each passing decade, more Americans have gone to school and earned a higher degree. But as shown in this chart above, which I compiled from data in a pair of annual reports released by the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly all of that progress since 1975 has been among females (in GREEN).

Women passed men in bachelor’s attainment in 1995 and haven’t looked back since. By 2000, a higher share of females were earning Master’s degrees, where they now out-compete males 8.8 percent to 5.1 percent. The pattern has been similar across every racial demographic. Among whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, women have simply made more progress.  

Read more. [Image: Jordan Weissmann]

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    Sup dudes. We’re winning. And yet we still make less and are underrepresented in government, etc. Le sigh.
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    Not that I aspire to be Marc St. James or anything…but I think I’ve got an edge up when women run the world
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    Go us.
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    Pretty much true of every couple I know - the female is more educated than the male.
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