Women overwhelmingly choose less lucrative majors than men, new data show
October 20, 2016
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Do women really earn less than men, and is that a result of discrimination – or simply what they choose to study?
University of Michigan-Flint Economics Prof. Mark Perry compared findings from a recent Glassdoor report on the “50 highest paying college majors” to U.S. Department of Education data on bachelor’s degrees awarded to men and women by “field of study.”
The match wasn’t perfect – the feds’ data is from the 2013-2014 academic year, and its fields of study (say, “engineering”) are much broader than Glassdoor’s list of majors (like electrical or chemical engineering), so Perry had to narrow down his data to 40 majors reported by Glassdoor.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/women-overwhelmingly-choose-less-lucrative-majors-men-new-data-show/
