Who Studies Better: Girls or Boys?

The NY Times reports (again) that women are doing better academically than men on college campuses. But how this will impact these womens' future places in the workforce reamins to be seen. The article concludes:

Still, men in the work force have always done better in pay and promotions, in part because they tend to work longer hours, and have fewer career interruptions than women, who bear the children and most of the responsibility for raising them.

Whether the male advantage will persist even as women's academic achievement soars is an open question. But many young men believe that, once in the work world, they will prevail.

"I think men do better out in the world because they care more about the power, the status, the C.E.O. job," Mr. Kohn said. "And maybe society holds men a little higher."

Comments

[Eli7]

The woman with the high GPA might get the better job, but as soon as she decides to take time off to raise her kids, things are going to change. To an employer, men are more dependable in the work force. College performance isn't going to change that.

Though, there was a really interesting article in the Times magazine a while ago, which basically concluded that women aren't ruling the world because they've chosen not to.

It's hard to tell what's causing what.

[Frumella]

How this will impact their future place in the workforce surely depends on basic structural accomadations like if there are children (a) parental leave- i.e. leave for either parent (b) genuine co-parenting i.e. both parents spend time caregiving (c) genuine sharing of domestic labor (still bizarrely imbalanced)(d) enforcement of equal pay... to mention a few. I don't buy the will-to-power difference...

[Frumella]

How this will impact their future place in the workforce surely depends on basic structural accomadations like if there are children (a) parental leave- i.e. leave for either parent (b) genuine co-parenting i.e. both parents spend time caregiving (c) genuine sharing of domestic labor (still bizarrely imbalanced)(d) enforcement of equal pay... to mention a few. I don't buy the will-to-power difference...

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