Women are catching up to men in higher education, reports the Census Bureau. Among 25- to 29-year-olds, 33 percent of women but only 26 percent of men have a bachelor’s degree or more. Among all adults, men have a slight edge (30 percent to 28 percent) in college completion.
* In 2007, 86 percent of all adults 25 and older reported they had completed at least high school and 29 percent at least a bachelor’s degree.
* More than half of Asians 25 and older had a bachelor’s degree or more (52 percent), compared with 32 percent of non-Hispanic whites, 19 percent of blacks and 13 percent of Hispanics.
* The proportion of the foreign-born population with a bachelor’s degree or more was 28 percent, compared with 29 percent of the native population.
The educational range is wide for immigrants: More have advanced degrees and more have only an elementary education.
The educational range is wide for immigrants: More have advanced degrees and more have only an elementary education.
And the educational range is even wider for male immigrants than female immigrants. Male immigrants have the highest rates of advanced degrees, and the highest rates of less than high school education, looking at the data.
Hardly worth getting fussed about when you remember that around 80% of secretaries, a low paying job, have college degrees and around 80% of carpenters, a highpaying job, don’t.
A lot of women go to school and get useless degrees with zero academic demands for administrative jobs. They will be perfectly happy marrying plumbers, and their college attendance will not result in highly educated women going lonely for highly educated men.
“They will be perfectly happy marrying plumbers, and their college attendance will not result in highly educated women going lonely for highly educated men.”
Crud!
I’m the parent of a young boy, and was kinda hoping for a massive dating imbalance in his favor
I guess the good news is that there still should be one *in* college.
-Mark Roulo