When looking though articles about women in the workforce, I found this one titled Women's share of Jobs Slipping by Christianna McCausland, quite interesting. This article talks about how the great recession was hard on the male workers. During this time, so many men found themselves, and by October of 2009 women held a record of 46.96% of the jobs. Things were finally starting to look good for women, but not for long. The following month the numbers once again began to drop. Male dominated jobs like manufacturing started to recover and female-dominated ones like education began to cut cost and lay teachers off.
This article states that although women make up half the attendance of law schools and graduate from college at higher rates than men do, they account for only 18 percent of partners in private law practice and 3 percent of Fortune 500 executives. In recent years, research shows that more women than men have been graduating from college in major cities. It has also been sited that 73 percent of recent high school valedictorians were women. Just last year, women’s median full-time earnings were $36,278 compared to $47,127 for men. This makes us question, will women’s numbers be able to finally surpass the men’s in the future?
Nina Pysson
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