10 Weird Outcomes Caused by more Women than Men Attending College

10 Weird Outcomes Caused by more Women the Men Attending College
10 Weird Outcomes Caused by more Women the Men Attending College

10 Weird Outcomes Caused by more Women than Men Attending College

The college attendance gender gap has shifted and it is growing fast. For decades, twice as many men as women graduated with bachelor’s degrees. Women not only caught up to men in the 1980s, they started to statistically pass them by. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, thirty years later, more than half (57%) of college students are women. More women (one-third of those enrolled) are also completing their bachelor’s degrees than are men.

OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) members, including the US, have seen

the college enrollment and graduation gender gap reverse itself in
nearly all of their 34 participating democratic countries. OECD members meet, discuss, and determine social and economic policies applicable in free market economies. Using this data, they analyze why there are more women undergraduates than men.

By 2002, fifteen of the 17 OECD countries having consistent post-secondary higher-education (France, Portugal, Sweden, US, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Spain, and UK), reported that women outnumbered men. Only Turkey and Switzerland had OECD statistic ratio of male-to-female higher education enrollment greater than one, with a declining gender gap.

US college trends indicating women have caught up to, and surpassed, men are consistent with this global pattern of change. It has had a socio-economic impact on the nations where it is occurring. However, this trend may also be traced to socio-economic events, such as changes in employment and labor force, family structure and income, and globalization as well as political/education focus.

10Worldwide Gender Biases, Inequalities, and Attitudes

Male Female Bias. It’s real!

9Household Income

Household income doesn’t stack up without two earners these days

8Family Structure

Traditional families are a thing of the past

7The Value of Marriage

Marriage’s stock is down

6Financial Stability

Without two paychecks money can get tight

5Earnings and Wages

Wouldn’t it be nice

4Labor Market and Occupation

Go ahead and outsource. Watch our nation crumble

3The Recession and Economic Progress

The great recession. Banks too big to fail. Main street bailed out Wall Streets. Those fat cats should be behind bars

2Globalization

A globalized world connected by technology is leaving many American men behind

1STEM

Girls can Stem and are Steming