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Instead of Work, Younger Women Head to School

New York Times

December 29, 2011

Many young women seem to be postponing their working lives to get more education. There are now - for the first time in three decades - more young women in school than in the work force. Though young women in their late teens and early 20's view today's economic lull as an opportunity to upgrade their skills, their male counterparts are more likely to take whatever job they can find. The longer-term consequences, economists say, are that the next generation of women may have a significant advantage over their male counterparts, whose career options are already becoming constrained.

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