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I just finished reading the book "Why Men Earn More" by Warren Farrell. He does a good job of going into more depth about the gender differences among differen

• jimbokun 17y ago
  My guess is that it's simply a rapidly fading anachronism. Young women in urban areas now make more than their male peers. Women now outnumber men in the work force and more men than women are unemployed. With women dominating college enrollments and graduation, for men to continue to earn more than women means that the positive correlation of income to level of education has to be reversed. As happens in military strategy, worrying about men out-earning women in the future seems an instance of fighting the last war.
  • whimsy 17y ago
    This is not something I'm well-educated in, but it's something I'm interested in. Do you have references to these statistics that you can share/cite/etc? I'd like to read more about what you've outlined.
    • jimbokun 17y ago
      Urban young women earn more than male counterparts: http://blogs.eweek.com/careers/content001/wages/young_women_earn_more_than_men_in_big_cities.html http://blogs.eweek.com/careers/content001/wages/young_women_... Women outnumber men in the workplace: http://www.electwomen.com/?p=3123 http://www.electwomen.com/?p=3123 Women outnumber men in college enrollment: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html (article about implications on dating) There are a ton more links on Google for each of these.