- Even men with college degrees are less successful than they used to be. The unemployment rate for recent male college graduates (age 21-24) is 7.1 percent, up from 4.1 percent in 2000. Recent female college graduates, however, have made a full recovery, back to the 4.4 percent unemployment rate they had in 2000.
In Boston, women who graduated from college in the past two years are finding jobs more quickly than their male counterparts, are more likely to be employed full time, and are earning higher salaries, according to a new study by the professional services company Accenture. Nearly 40 percent of female graduates are making more than $40,000 a year, vs. just 16 percent of male grads.
A bunch of overeducated, underemployed men... what could go wrong?
FUN FACT: Under the social structure of feudal Europe, first sons inherited lands and title while additional sons were expected to achieve economic success via battle (actual and formalized). The only training available to them, socially, was warfare. It's not entirely facetious to argue that medieval Europe fought the Crusades because they didn't have COD:Infinite Warfare.