In England, more female than male graduates land jobs
This is a gender imbalance that never even occurred to me. More women than men go to college, and then more women land jobs. I’d like to see a similar survey in this country.
From The Telegraph:
Women graduates ‘more likely to find a job’
Women are significantly more likely to be in work after leaving university than men, according to research.
More than one-in-10 male graduates were unemployed six months after completing courses compared with 6.5 per cent of women, it was disclosed.
In all, almost 10,000 men were jobless, a rise of more than 50 per cent in a year, according to figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency.
It was also revealed that a third of all graduates were in low-paid jobs such as bar work or stacking supermarket shelves.
The National Union of Students said the disclosure compounded problems for graduates who already face leaving university with record debts.
But the Government insisted that a university degree was still hugely worthwhile.
David Lammy, the Higher Education Minister, said: “Employment rates for both male and female graduates continue to be higher than for those with lower qualifications.
“We are putting in place a range of options for graduates… to help match motivated students with firms offering internships.”
But David Willetts, the Conservative shadow universities secretary, said: “The Government didn’t use the boom years to prepare the country for tougher economic times and now Britain’s young people, and young men in particular, are paying the price.”
Meanwhile, the Government was warned it must invest £33 million to begin tackling the “chronic under-funding” of part-time students.
They make up a third of all undergraduates but are ineligible for Government-subsidised loans and 90 per cent do not receive a grant.
The Policy Exchange think-tank said part-time study was increasingly attractive in the recession, particularly to older students, but the lack of support was putting many people off.
Tags: britain workplace
August 24th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I’d be curious what jobs they find. Are the women becoming secretaries or “Administrative Assistants”? Or are they getting jobs directly in the fields of their degrees? And, of course, the same questions for the men. As we know, “male” fields like construction and manufacturing are shrinking. For college graduates, we wouldn’t expect them to be heading for those fields anyway. But I suspect that, for quite a while, we have been producing far more Bachelor’s Degrees in many subjects than there is potential employment for. And that goes beyond the obvious, like undergraduate Anthropology majors. So when these graduates get jobs, very often I suspect they are “retreating” to what are ostensibly jobs that don’t require a college degree.