How College Degrees Are Widening the Women’s Pay Gap
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By: Kit Eaton
In the current political environment, it can be hard to talk about gender-based workplace trends for a number of reasons, including government and corporate pivots against DEI and the banning of certain keywords for federal use by the Trump administration — including the words women, female, and equality. But gender-centric trends do exist, as a new report about the different employment rates that women experience shows. Data from nonprofit think tank Third Way reveals large differences in the quality of women’s jobs depending on their education level.
The report states that the pandemic “she-cession,” when women were “disproportionately represented in job losses,” has ended, and now “the share of women in the labor force continues to hit historic highs,” which is good news. The stats show that the proportion of college-educated women aged 25 to 44 years has increased to 73 percent in 2024, up from 64 percent in 2004.
But the story is very different for women without college degrees: Over the same period, this cohort’s share of the workforce has grown only slightly — up less than 1 percentage point to 53 percent. Read more...
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6hCorporate culture and greed are widening the pay gap, not the selection of degrees people choose to obtain.