Tough economic times favor women

• January 19, 2011 5:32am

In his article, “Women closing the job, wage divide”, San Francisco Chronicle writer Tom Abate reported that the current recession is accelerating changes in the labor landscape. Cal State East Bay was contacted to provide insight from a higher education perspective.

More women than men are earning the college degrees that should lead to even better-paying jobs in the future. At CSUEB, for example, female graduates now outnumber men 58 to 42 percent.

While the overall U.S. unemployment rate is 9.8 percent, 10 percent of men are jobless, compared with 8.4 of women.

Read the SF Chronicle article.

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