College degree gender gap widens with younger Gen Xers, study find - Fox News

A federal survey of about 9,000 young men and women born during the years 1980 to 1984 shows a big disparity when it comes to higher education, with women a third more likely to have received a bachelor's degree by age 27. At 27 years of age, 32 percent of women had received a bachelor’s degree, compared to 24 percent of men, and by the same age, some 70 percent of women had at least attended some college, compared to 61 percent of men. Digging deeper into the numbers, the survey found that once students enroll in college, women are more likely to don a cap and gown. Of the 70 percent of women who started college, 46 percent completed their bachelor’s degree by age 27. In comparison, of the 61 percent of men who started college, just 39 percent had completed their bachelor’s degree. As part of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, researchers for the Bureau of Labor Statistics have been tracking the 9,000 respondents for years. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/03/college-degree-gender-gap-widens-with-younger-gen-xers/