The Table lists different educational attainments for females and males with associated monthly earnings and months worked during a four month period. One thing is immediately clear from the Table . Men work a higher percentage of time than women at all levels of education except that of a doctorate degree. The average percentage of time worked will be affected by the fact that some working mothers may not wish to work full time while they raise children. But many women today actually want or need more constant work and more hours of work.
Education appears to help women gain some control over their work schedules.
The Table also discloses that when each educational level is compared to the next higher level, earnings are consistently 75 to 80 percent of those at the higher level, with two major exceptions. People with no high school diploma earn less than 50 percent of the amount those who have graduated from high school earn. Graduating from high school is obviously a major step toward earning a living. People with a high school education earn between 84 and 87 percent of what people with some college and vocational training earn. These levels of educational advancement show the least amount of improvement over the educational level directly below them.