More American Women Than Men Have Bachelor Degrees

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This was going to happen eventually given that more women than men have graduated from college over the past few decades.

http://theweek.com/speedreads/582908/first-time-more-american-women-than-men-hold-bachelors-degrees

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More interesting, it appears the percentage of men with bachelors degrees decreased from 2013 to 2014. Why?

There’s some funky math going on there… 0.1% of the total female population of the US is about 157 thousand (I’m using 2010 census numbers). 32% of the difference in male and female populations is about 1.6 million (there’s about 5 million more women than men in the US). So it, based on the percentages there, should be about 1.75 million. So where does 8 million come from?

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There is a link in the article to the spreadsheets with the actual numbers of M and W with Bachelors Degrees. Based on them the difference is 2,085 million.

It is ok. The author is a women with a Bachelor Degree.

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For anyone else initially confused, in Europe they use ‘,’ instead of ‘.’

But yeah, 2.085 million seems to make sense.

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Are you a man with an engineering degree?