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When it comes to the workforce, women now hold 17% more master's degrees than men.
Men, what's our hope from here?
1. Construction employment will miraculously rebound?
2. Professional sports will need us more than we need them?
3. Prisons will expand?
4. Global nuclear war?
5. Beer?
Throw me a bone here! What's our plan!
Women, why are you doing this?
1. Want a better life?
2. Not buying the optimistic projections of future prosperity?
3. Still holding a grudge over the past several thousand years?
4. Tired of violent crime?
5. Or is it something else?
What is it! Inquiring minds want to know!
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Oh great, now you've come up with another unanswerable question about women. Nice work!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous,
ReplyDeleteLife is filled with mysteries.
What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. - Jack Handey
Using your linear channel and the ratio of women/men from when I went to Grad school I'd estimate I graduated somewhere between 1910-1920 (that would be way off, I'm not that old). Sadly the hard science degrees don't attract the women, that is a battle I'd have happily been on the losing end of as a willing warrior.
ReplyDeleteDeath by snu snu!
fudge_hend,
ReplyDeleteThere was a girl in my advanced physics class in the 1980s.
It's not quite as bad as it sounds. I think there were only about 8 of us in total. For what it is worth, the business school was fairly packed though.
I never got a graduate degree. I opted for a BS in computer science and a BA in physics (figured it would help my career more, which in hindsight, it did).
An alarming number of jobs in social work apparently require a Master's now, according to some women chatting about the topic on a local jobs board.
ReplyDeleteNot to get promoted, just to start at the lower tiers.
--A fellow Cascadian
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI would believe that. I wonder how long it will be before a PhD is required?
Civilian Labor Force - College Graduates - Doctoral Degree, 25 years and over
The Great Recession generated quite a few.