Women run college-educated jobs

Women now the majority of the college-educated labor force The pandemic created many hardships for workers and families. But it did not upend women’s reaching the milestone of outnumbering men among those in the #workforce having at least a bachelor’s degree. Formally they became a majority in the fourth quarter of 2019. #COVID-19 led to a steep labor force contraction in Spring 2020. Women suffered greater labor force declines than men in 2020. But not all women were equally stressed by the #COVID recession. The labor force of college-educated women has steadily grown since spring 2020 and it has grown faster than the labor force of college-educated men. Labor #markets have been tight in 2022 and employers and policymakers are asking when will workers get off the sidelines and return to #work? There is a group who is participating in the labor force at the same rate as before the pandemic: college-educated women. They have returned and continue to be a majority of labor force with at least a bachelor’s degree. Undoubtedly many women and men face difficulties juggling #work/life balance, but college-educated women still find work attractive. And that is a blessing for the wider #economy. Will men and less-educated women return? Find the numbers here https://pewrsr.ch/3LMg9FD

Women have overtaken men and now account for more than half (50.7%) of the college-educated labor force in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. The change occurred in the fourth quarter of 2019 and remains the case today, even though the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sharp recession and an overall decline in the size of the nation’s labor force.

This article outlines trends in degree balance, but also which population segments declined or remained stable in workforce participation . One of the troubling findings in the first year of Covid was a net loss of over 1M women in the workforce. As we parse the data, we find that this attrition clustered in the non-degreed population. As women now comprise the majority of degree-holders in the workforce, we will need to determine how imbalances in participation by gender will impact work futures.?

"This shift in the college-educated labor force – as women now comprise a majority – comes around four decades after?women surpassed men?in the number of Americans earning a bachelor’s degree each year." Keep breaking those ceilings!!!

Women have overtaken men and now account for more than half (50.7%) of the college-educated labor force in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. The change occurred in the fourth quarter of 2019 and remains the case today, even though the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sharp recession and an overall decline in the size of the nation’s labor force.