...Women
We are still in a recession and there are still millions of people without jobs. Despite all of that there is a constant trend that i would say is growing. There are more women with jobs than men. Why? Well maybe it also has to do with the fact that there are more women in college than men. With so many companies looking for highly educated workers, that gives women an edge. This is benefiting them as well. Not only are there more women working, but the wage gap is shrinking because of it. It use to be that women earned 71 cents per every one dollar a man earned, but now it is 83 cents per every dollar a man earns. Minority women are also seeing more work and better wages, while on the other hand minority men are seeing less work and shrinking wages. This is a plus an a minus. Will it last? Possibly, but this reminds me of World War 2 when the men were off to war and the women had factory jobs, but when the men came home the women returned back to the home to do their domestic duties. Now this is 2010 and the recession will probably end around...2014, although I thought they technically said the recession was over already... Their words not mine. This is good for 
women though and it can only go up from here, maybe, we will see what happens when more men return to work. As for college, that is totally different. College is expensive and it is school and most guys, although they want to succeed and be successful, they do not want to put in the time and effort. Beyond that the short-term gain of a paycheck looks and feels better than the long-term gain that college could offer. College is not a guaranteed success for everyone and yes there are millions who have made it without going to college, but it is growing very difficult to do that these days and I can only imagine how much more difficult it will be in the future. Can you see McDonald's asking you to have a college degree in hospitality to flip burgers? Still women are on top at the moment and for that I will give them a Digit Up.
We are still in a recession and there are still millions of people without jobs. Despite all of that there is a constant trend that i would say is growing. There are more women with jobs than men. Why? Well maybe it also has to do with the fact that there are more women in college than men. With so many companies looking for highly educated workers, that gives women an edge. This is benefiting them as well. Not only are there more women working, but the wage gap is shrinking because of it. It use to be that women earned 71 cents per every one dollar a man earned, but now it is 83 cents per every dollar a man earns. Minority women are also seeing more work and better wages, while on the other hand minority men are seeing less work and shrinking wages. This is a plus an a minus. Will it last? Possibly, but this reminds me of World War 2 when the men were off to war and the women had factory jobs, but when the men came home the women returned back to the home to do their domestic duties. Now this is 2010 and the recession will probably end around...2014, although I thought they technically said the recession was over already... Their words not mine. This is good for 
women though and it can only go up from here, maybe, we will see what happens when more men return to work. As for college, that is totally different. College is expensive and it is school and most guys, although they want to succeed and be successful, they do not want to put in the time and effort. Beyond that the short-term gain of a paycheck looks and feels better than the long-term gain that college could offer. College is not a guaranteed success for everyone and yes there are millions who have made it without going to college, but it is growing very difficult to do that these days and I can only imagine how much more difficult it will be in the future. Can you see McDonald's asking you to have a college degree in hospitality to flip burgers? Still women are on top at the moment and for that I will give them a Digit Up.
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