The shift has occurred in New York since 2000 and even earlier in Los Angeles, Dallas and other cities.
Just why young women at all educational levels in New York and other big cities have fared better than their peers elsewhere is a matter of some debate. But a major reason, experts say, is that women have been graduating from college in larger numbers than men, and that many of those women seem to be gravitating toward major urban areas.
In 2005, 53 percent of women in their 20s working in New York were college graduates, compared with only 38 percent of men of that age. And many of those women are not marrying right after college, leaving them freer to focus on building careers, experts said.
“Citified college-women are more likely to be nonmarried and childless, compared with their suburban sisters, so they can and do devote themselves to their careers,” said Andrew Hacker, a Queens College sociologist and the author of “Mismatch: The Growing Gulf Between Men and Women.”
“In women’s-studies courses you always heard that men were making more money, and it was a disadvantage being a woman,” Miss Kraft said. “It’s great that it’s starting to turn around.”
Women in their 20s also make more than men in Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis and a few other big cities. But only in Dallas do young women’s wages surpass men’s by a larger amount than in New York. In Dallas, women make 120 percent of what men do, although their median wage there, $25,467, was much lower than that of women in New York.
As women enrolled in college and graduate school continue to outnumber men, gender wage gaps among older workers may narrow, too, experts said. Even among New Yorkers in their 30s, women now make as much as men.
The gender wage advantage for women in their 20s was widest among whites with some college education, blacks and Asians with advanced degrees and Hispanic women who were high school or college graduates.
In jobs that were once defined as male preserves — including police officer and private investigator — where gender barriers are crumbling, young men and women in New York had the same median wages: a little more than $40,000. And women in their 20s now make more than men in a wide variety of other jobs: as doctors, personnel managers, architects, economists, lawyers, stock clerks, customer service representatives, editors and reporters.
Though Dr. Beveridge’s analysis showed women making strides, it also showed that men were in some ways moving backward. Among all men — including those with college degrees — real wages, adjusted for inflation, have declined since 1970. And among full-time workers with advanced degrees, wages for men increased only marginally even as they soared for women. Nationally, men’s wages in general declined while women’s remained the same.
Several experts also said that rising income for women might affect marriage rates if women expect their mates to have at least equivalent salaries and education.
“When New York college women say there are few eligible men around, they’re right if they mean they’ll only settle for someone with an education akin to their own,” Professor Hacker said.
- New York Times
When they claim that men make more than women, the feminists have always said that this is proof of sex discrimination against women. Yet now that they admit that women actually make more than men in every major city, they don't say a word about discrimination. Quite the opposite, they report it as a cause for celebration and demand more of it, which they will get as this government mandated sex-based duality continues to snowball.
All colleges and universities are required to recruit as many women as possible. There is no requirement for them to recruit men at all, and they haven't for a very long time.
In corporate America, the EEOC requires that companies pay a premium for females but has no requirement whatever for the hiring of a proportionate number of male employees.
In IT, the field in which I work, women are paid substantially more than men with the same qualifications for the same work. The EEOC is directly responsible for this, having creating an artificial demand based purely on sex in a field in which women have little interest. Yet no one says a word, unless it is to celebrate it, or to deny it and claim women are oppressed anyway.
Where are the men?
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