Dr. Laura,
Regarding more women getting higher education degrees than men today…
A college degree does not equal more money. I work as an industrial electrical technician. I obtained about 53 technical semester hours of electronics and electrical credits from Navy aviation electronics technician schools and a formal continuing education course with an employer in industrial electricity. I've been in my field for over 25 years now and have experience and formal training in robotics and industrial laser systems. My mother is Master Degreed in education and I have made more money than her ever since I got out of the military for the past 17 years. Men's professions are more demanding technically and physically for the most part and are in greater demand. You are paid not only for what you know but what you can do. That is why men make more money in these areas combined and just having a degree doesn't always mean more money. I forgot to mention, I do not have a degree and on average make about 75K. I've made as much as 100K in a year. I probably have equivalent to a B.S., but it doesn't matter anymore because I can work for an electrical power, civil service, or manufacturing industries. Sometimes a degree is more a crutch than it is a living. Many women don't realize they could do what I do and other men do and stop feeding the elite education system for a degree that just doesn't cut the mustard anymore.
T.
