{"id":1084,"date":"2008-05-23T22:17:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T03:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:54:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:54:23","slug":"women-now-graduating-college-at-higher-rates-than-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/23\/women-now-graduating-college-at-higher-rates-than-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Now Graduating College at Higher Rates than Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/gender-education-education-gap-history.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1083 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/gender-education-education-gap-history.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"503\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/05\/gender-education-education-gap-history.gif\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThere are other things interesting about this graph too.\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 The overall increase in the percentage of the U.S. population who attends and graduates college&#8230; and thus changing ideas about who &#8220;needs&#8221; a college degree.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0The fact that the gender difference wasn&#8217;t extreme in the late 1800s at all and\u00a0increased in the early 1900s.\u00a0(This is in contrast to most students understanding of history, in my experience, as a linear story of progress from backwards to enllightened.) \u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">(3)\u00a0\u00a0The spike in college enrollment and graduation after WWII (GI Bill&#8230; but how does that explain the stats on women?).\u00a0 (4)\u00a0 The weird dip in 1950s (I don&#8217;t know what that&#8217;s all about). \u00a0And, (5)\u00a0the period of near parity in the 1960s.<\/span>\u00a0 (In the comments, Penny points out that I mis-read the graph in haste.\u00a0 I apologize.)\u00a0\u00a0 (3) The weird dip for people born in the 1950s and coming of age in the 1970s\u00a0(I don&#8217;t know what that&#8217;s all about). \u00a0And, (4)\u00a0the period of near parity for people born in the 1960s and coming of age in the 1980s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See the accompanying article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/21\/business\/21leonhardt.html?ex=1212033600&amp;en=dde0b6df6723b4aa&amp;ei=5070&amp;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are other things interesting about this graph too.\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 The overall increase in the percentage of the U.S. population who attends and graduates college&#8230; and thus changing ideas about who &#8220;needs&#8221; a college degree.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0The fact that the gender difference wasn&#8217;t extreme in the late 1800s at all and\u00a0increased in the early 1900s.\u00a0(This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,55,2101,2102,253],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-education","tag-gender-history","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23604,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/23604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}