Workplace Salaries: At Last, Women on Top

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58. We had better educational parity in 1920

I found an interesting paper a while back, part of which featured a survey done of the state university systems across the US in the year 1920. Did you know that there were just as many women going to state universities as men in that year? Yup don't believe everything you hear about how we never valued women enough to educate them.

Men only started outnumbering women in college after WWII because so many young men were able to go due to the GI bill. Then we had Korea and Vietnam so the numbers for men stayed higher on through the 70's. Once we ran out of large scale wars by the mid-70's and 80's numbers for men began to fall again. Of course researchers with an agenda ignored the plain facts and attributed the lower numbers of women as discrimination.