December 1, 2023

College educated women in the workplace

 College-educated mothers stampeded into the workforce over the past 20 years.... No one expected this. Back in the 2000s, the big worry — epitomized by a 2003 New York Times Magazine article, "The Opt-Out Revolution" — was that high-achieving women were having kids and leaving the workforce. This is about big cultural changes. It's become far more socially acceptable — expected even — for women to keep working after having kids. That's one reason the share of women with a college degree has soared over the past 20 years, to more than 45% from less than 30%.

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