In Hawaiʻi, more women have degrees, but more men get the jobs
Disparity between the sexes has been a benchmark of capitalism for centuries. In Hawaiʻi, more women have degrees than men, according to the 2020 census. This disparity has been a key benchmark of capitalism for centuries, with women gaining the right to vote in 1920, while black women did not secure their full rights to vote until 1965. The University of Hawai’i, founded in 1907, admitted its first female students shortly after its establishment, nearly 70 years before the University of California allowed women to be a part of their university. However, there is a 7% gap in employment opportunities for women versus men in Hawai'i. The educational landscape in 2021 awarded 13,509 degrees, with 5,324 men receiving degrees compared to 8,185 women.
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HONOLULU (KHON2) — Disparity between the sexes has been a benchmark of capitalism for centuries.
Of course, we all know that women gained the right to vote in 1920, but black women did not secure their full rights to vote until 1965.
Did you know that it was not until 1974 that women gained the right to have a credit card in their name?
And while states had enacted various laws to give women the right to own property, control their earnings (i.e. keep their paychecks and not have to hand them over to a male family member) and manage their own finances (i.e. access to bank accounts and credit cards in their name) in individual states, there was no federal law until 1974 that guaranteed and protected these rights.
So, the system in which we live and work has been created over centuries to exclude and marginalize women.
Universities were not amenable to women becoming students; so, in the 19th century, lots of female-centric universities began popping up.
Radcliffe was founded by Harvard University in 1879 as a female educational institution. It allowed women to take courses and receive instruction from Harvard faculty, but they weren’t technically students or graduates of Harvard. It wasn’t until 1963 that women were first admitted to Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and in 1977, Harvard and Radcliffe signed an agreement that put undergraduate women fully in Harvard College.
On the flip side of this experience from the continent, The University of Hawai’i, which was founded in 1907 as the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of the Territory of Hawaiʻi, admitted its first female students shortly after its establishment. That’s nearly 70 years before the U.S.’s premier higher education institution allowed women to be a part of their university.
UH quickly and evolved into a more comprehensive university and was quite progressive in terms of coeducation from its early years.
According to data collected from the 2020 census, Hawaiʻi’s workforce consisted of 674,937 people; and the distribution amongst the sexes indicated that 46.8% of the workforce were women with 53.2% being men. That’s a whopping ~7% gap in employment opportunities afforded to women versus men in Hawaiʻi.
The educational landscape in 2021 revealed that universities in Hawaiʻi awarded 13,509 degrees. The student demographic leaned heavily towards females (38,139) compared to males (22,262). This means that ~16,000 more women earned higher education degrees than men.
And admission rates indicate that more women are seeking out higher education than men. In total, admissions at institutions like University of Hawaiʻi shows that women constituted 60.4% while men made up 39.6% of admissions. That is approximately a 21% difference between the sexes.
The data indicated a gap in degree attainment by sex in 2021, with 5,324 men receiving degrees compared to 8,185 women.
You can click here to access Hawaiʻi census data.
So, we have to ask the question, what are our universities doing to ensure that their female graduates are able to find adequate employment? This means jobs in line with their experience and educational attainment as well as work environments that support the expected social role of women to become mothers.