Work v.s Children in
Economic Scope
According to Dorment’s article in Esquire nearly 60% of all the bachelors degrees in America go to women, yet women only hold about 15% of all fortune 500 executive positions, and less than 20% of congress. The amount of educated women does not add up to the low level of women available in the labor market. I am currently taking a microeconomics class and since Slaughter mentions that due to the current economics women can’t have it all, I thought I would carry that thought and analyze her argument. Economics in short is the study of how one makes choices. I believe that it is choice that women make differently from men that results in these statics and feel that sexism and gender equality has less to do with it than many may think. Whilst women have comparative advantage over their male …show more content…
The reason is that statistics show that 60% women get their bachelor 's degree. So how is it that they only have a small percentage of high level jobs yet still there are about as many women in the workforce as men, and according to Hanna Rosin 's 2012 book, The End of Men, of the fifteen professions projected to grow the fastest over the coming years, twelve are currently dominated by women. All of these statics are provided to us by Dorment is his article “Why men can’t have it all.” Per a 2010 study by James Chung of Reach Advisors, unmarried childless women under thirty and with full-time jobs earn 8 percent more than their male peers in 147 out of 150 of the largest U. S. cities. Also according to this NCHS Data Brief average age for women to have their first child was about 26.3 years old which has risen from 24.9 in 2000. This data shows us just how the importance of professional careers over having a child is changing as women seem to be pushing this further and further away as society tells them that a professional career is more important than a
Economic Scope
According to Dorment’s article in Esquire nearly 60% of all the bachelors degrees in America go to women, yet women only hold about 15% of all fortune 500 executive positions, and less than 20% of congress. The amount of educated women does not add up to the low level of women available in the labor market. I am currently taking a microeconomics class and since Slaughter mentions that due to the current economics women can’t have it all, I thought I would carry that thought and analyze her argument. Economics in short is the study of how one makes choices. I believe that it is choice that women make differently from men that results in these statics and feel that sexism and gender equality has less to do with it than many may think. Whilst women have comparative advantage over their male …show more content…
The reason is that statistics show that 60% women get their bachelor 's degree. So how is it that they only have a small percentage of high level jobs yet still there are about as many women in the workforce as men, and according to Hanna Rosin 's 2012 book, The End of Men, of the fifteen professions projected to grow the fastest over the coming years, twelve are currently dominated by women. All of these statics are provided to us by Dorment is his article “Why men can’t have it all.” Per a 2010 study by James Chung of Reach Advisors, unmarried childless women under thirty and with full-time jobs earn 8 percent more than their male peers in 147 out of 150 of the largest U. S. cities. Also according to this NCHS Data Brief average age for women to have their first child was about 26.3 years old which has risen from 24.9 in 2000. This data shows us just how the importance of professional careers over having a child is changing as women seem to be pushing this further and further away as society tells them that a professional career is more important than a