When it comes to filling skilled positions in the future, employers will look toward the biggest and best educated pool of workers, which as the data suggest, will be women. Inc. As companies have an increasingly difficult time finding qualified individuals to fill the growing number of highly skilled positions, college-educated women will be the biggest benefactors, ultimately leading to the disappearance of the glass ceiling.
Women now outnumber men when it comes to having a four-year college degree.
This is significant because a growing number of jobs, even those in traditionally blue-collar industries, require advanced technical training or a college degree. By comparison, of those in their 40s, women held 50 percent of the bachelor's degrees, and of those in their 60s, women held just 42 percent of the degrees. The importance of a four-year degree has not been lost on the younger generation of women. More and more are attending colleges and universities, considerably outpacing their male counterparts. This will undoubtedly expand opportunities for women as they make up a growing percentage of the skilled labor force.