Gettin' the degree...

While I'm definitely a hardcore Purdue fan, some credit for this post is going to our enemy to the south.


IU's business research center did a study that was posted just days ago (November 29) in the Chicago Tribune. In this study, they interviewed men and women to determine which gender had the more college degrees.


Women won, of course.


25.7% of females interviewed in the 35-to-44 age group had a bachelors degree or higher. Only 22.8% of males had the same degree or higher.


In the 25-to-34 age group, 28.1% of women had the degree. In the same age group, only 23.4% of men had their degree.


What does this say?


While it does not say that women are necessarily smarter, it says that women try harder. Women are more willing to push themselves to further their education rather than just sit back and live with what they have. They want to gain the education and degree needed to get good, well-paying jobs.


Also, it probably has to do with women striving to gain respect. After years of not having the rights to do pretty much anything, women are trying to fix it. We're getting our respect when and where we want it. And getting a degree helps us to do that.


Women: 16
Men: 0