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SOURCE

Pew Research Center

WHAT TO KNOW

• The U.S. education gender gap has grown steadily since 1995, when young women and men were equally likely to hold a bachelor’s degree (25% each). Over the past three decades, the share of young women with a degree has increased by 22 percentage points (from 25% to 47%), while the share among young men has seen a smaller 12-point increase (from 25% to 37%). The education gender gap now appears in every major racial or ethnic group.

WHY IT MATTERS

• Three decades of outpacing men in college completion has also helped women narrow the STEM education gap over the past two decades, though a recent study found progress at top universities, which have significantly narrowed the gender gap in physics, engineering, and computer science (PECS) majors, is masking a growing crisis at less selective schools, where the PECS gap has increased from a male-to-female ratio of 3.5:1 in 2002 to 7.1:1 in 2022.

CONNECT THE DOTS

• Unsurprisingly, women now represent a majority (50.7%) of the college-educated U.S. workforce, having overtaken men back in 2019. The shift persisted through the COVID pandemic, despite an overall reduction in the nation’s labor force.

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