Women in College = Women in Power?

Studies over the last 40 years have shown that the number of women enrolled in college outnumber the men. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the male-to-female ratio within the college population will reach 39 to 61 percent by 2009.

One author of an editorial stated, "More College = More Money + More Power. If that's true, 30 years from now women will be making most of the money and they'll be running society. That would certainly mark a turning point for civilization . . . No major society in recorded history has seen true parity of money and power between men and women. The United States would be the first."

So why haven't we seen a female president? (Hilary, that doesn't mean you're going to get it.) The closest we've come to women ruling the country have been Madeline Albright and Condoleeza Rice. In the Supreme Court, the number of women justices has actually decreased in recent times.

This is because the author states that "women have outnumbered men in college for almost 40 years now, yet they still earn about 75 cents for every dollar earned by men in comparable jobs." So maybe that formula for success isn't exactly true.

I read another article stating that women earn less because they aren't as concerned with a specific dollar amount being attached to their work; they care more about good relationships in business than they care about money. But despite this, in America, men still hold the power, college-educated or not. Therefore, it must hold that power is still derived from money, and maybe college isn't necessarily going to get you there on its own.