Women now outnumber men in the U.S. college-educated labor force
Women have overtaken men and now account for more than half (50.7%) of the college-educated labor force in the United States.
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Women have overtaken men and now account for more than half (50.7%) of the college-educated labor force in the United States.
Among adults 25 and older who have no education beyond high school, more women have left the labor force than men.
Women now make up 35% of workers in the United States’ 10 highest-paying occupations – up from 13% in 1980.
Black and Hispanic workers remain underrepresented in STEM jobs compared with their share of the U.S. workforce.
As of the third quarter of 2021, 50.3% of U.S. adults 55 and older said they were out of the labor force due to retirement.
In the third quarter of 2020, about 28.6 million Baby Boomers reported that they were out of the labor force due to retirement.
Household incomes in the United States have rebounded from their 2012 bottom in the wake of the Great Recession. And for the most part, the typical incomes of households headed by less-educated adults as well as more-educated adults have increased.
This year will likely be the first year in which women are a majority of the U.S. college-educated labor force.
Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.
About half of U.S. adults lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to our new analysis of government data.
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