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A gender gap is widening among members of Generation X when it comes to getting a college degree. (AP file)
There’s a growing gender gap when it comes to the youngest members of Generation X and college.
A federal survey of about 9,000 young men and women born during the years 1980 to 1984 shows a big disparity when it comes to higher education, with women a third more likely to have received a bachelor's degree by age 27. While it has long been known that women are outpacing men when it comes to pursuing higher education, the extensive study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics highlighted several numbers that show the trend is accelerating.
“This is really an important phenomenon that hasn’t happened overnight,” said Ohio State University sociologist Claudia Buchmann, who last year co-authored a book “The Rise of Women” that sought to answer why more women go to college than men.
At 27 years of age, 32 percent of women had received a bachelor’s degree, compared to 24 percent of men, and by the same age, some 70 percent of women had at least attended some college, compared to 61 percent of men.
“This is really an important phenomenon that hasn’t happened overnight.”
- Claudia Buchmann, socialogist at The Ohio State University
Digging deeper into the numbers, the survey found that once students enroll in college, women are more likely to don a cap and gown. Of the 70 percent of women who started college, 46 percent completed their bachelor’s degree by age 27. In comparison, of the 61 percent of men who started college, just 39 percent had completed their bachelor’s degree.
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Now we know WHAT ... but do we know WHY?
There’s a growing gender gap when it comes to the youngest members of Generation X and college.
A federal survey of about 9,000 young men and women born during the years 1980 to 1984 shows a big disparity when it comes to higher education, with women a third more likely to have received a bachelor's degree by age 27. While it has long been known that women are outpacing men when it comes to pursuing higher education, the extensive study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics highlighted several numbers that show the trend is accelerating.
“This is really an important phenomenon that hasn’t happened overnight,” said Ohio State University sociologist Claudia Buchmann, who last year co-authored a book “The Rise of Women” that sought to answer why more women go to college than men.
At 27 years of age, 32 percent of women had received a bachelor’s degree, compared to 24 percent of men, and by the same age, some 70 percent of women had at least attended some college, compared to 61 percent of men.
“This is really an important phenomenon that hasn’t happened overnight.”
- Claudia Buchmann, socialogist at The Ohio State University
Digging deeper into the numbers, the survey found that once students enroll in college, women are more likely to don a cap and gown. Of the 70 percent of women who started college, 46 percent completed their bachelor’s degree by age 27. In comparison, of the 61 percent of men who started college, just 39 percent had completed their bachelor’s degree.
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Now we know WHAT ... but do we know WHY?
