In this battle of the sexes, the men are losing…

Written on June 28, 2007 – 5:47 pm | by Jim Stroud |

A few eye-opening stats…

For every 100 women enrolled in college there are 77 men enrolled.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2004.html

For every 100 women enrolled in the first year of college there are 79 men enrolled.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2004.html

For every 100 women enrolled in the second year of college there are 71 men enrolled.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2004.html

For every 100 women enrolled in the third year of college there are 75 men enrolled.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2004.html

For every 100 women enrolled in the fourth year of college there are 94 men enrolled.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2004.html

For every 100 women enrolled in the fifth year of college there are 65 men enrolled.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2004.html

For every 100 women enrolled in the sixth year or more of college there are 78 men enrolled.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school/cps2004.html

For every 100 women living in college dormitories there are 87 men living in college dorms.
http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/phc-t26.html

For every 100 American women who earn an associateís degree from college 67 American men earn the same degree.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_262.asp

For every 100 American women who earn a bachelorís degree from college 73 American men earn a bachelorís degree.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_262.asp

For every 100 American women who earn a masterís degree from college 62 American men earn the same degree.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_265.asp

For every 100 American women who earn a first-professional degree 107 American men earn a first-professional degree.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_271.asp

For every 100 American women who earn a doctor’s degree from college 92 American men earn the same degree.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_268.asp

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  1. 2 Responses to “In this battle of the sexes, the men are losing…”

  2. By Daniel Sweet on Jun 30, 2007 | Reply

    If you accept the argument made by the “women make 66 / 75 / 79 cents for every dollar men make”, the logical conclusion would be that college isn’t as important to real world pay as they might like you to believe.

    How do you juxtapose those to things?

    Dan

  3. By Ens on Jul 2, 2007 | Reply

    Several answers:

    1. Despite the fact that far more women pursue higher education now, that was not the case for a large portion of recent history. Thus, more men still have degrees in total.

    2. What’s more, for the same reasons as above, a higher proportion of men with degrees are older. Those are the people who have had time to climb the corporate ladder, get a better salary, etc..

    3. Your conclusion does not logically follow. It could very well be that uneducated women make X (where X

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