This is a topic which has captivated my interest for some time now. Over the years I’ve read a lot of material in RP spaces concerning female ‘independence’, women reaping more benefits from social security, paying fewer taxes etc. Also, many users here are aware of the BS degrees that are available nowadays and how especially women tend to favor these. So I decided to run some very basic, publicly available numbers myself to see how much truth some of these writings contain.

My ‘research’ takes a look at Dutch College participation rates between Males/Females and also how Male/Female earnings compare between ages 25-45. The reason I picked the 25-45 age bracket is that from the year 2000 forward, there were more women in college than men, as can be seen here. Therefore, it should on paper make sense that women also surpassed men in terms of income, right?

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The graph is from 2020 and demonstrates the rapid increase of females in higher education, surpassing men approximately in the year 2000. I’m assuming these numbers are comparable to countries such as US/UK/Germany/France/Sweden/Norway/Switzerland etc.

The exact percentages of persons with at least a college degree in 2020

For every 100 men with a college level degree between age 25-35, there are currently 122 women.

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For every 100 males studying medicine in university, there are 212 females. Here.

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Female majority (20-25 yo's) only in municipalities with colleges. See here.

Far more men keep living in the countryside.

Men keep living with their parents more often & longer. Here.

Another interesting fact I stumbled upon while researching this; although around age 23 in some cities the male/female ratio is 100 males for every 140 females, at age 29 this ratio has vanished and is back to 1:1. This is the demography of Utrecht, a city notorious for the amount of female students. As can be seen, the amount of women living in the city starts to rapidly decline after age 23. The amount of men only starts to decline after age 30. Arguably, one of the main driving factors for women leaving the city sooner than men, is a shortage of men.

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Like I said, for the sake of this ‘research’ I specifically looked at the 25-45 years old bracket because I wanted to see how those education rates would impact how much females earn. Obviously it had a positive impact, but perhaps not as significant as you would expect.

Here is a distribution of male earnings age 25-35 and 35-45 in Euro’s.

The average man between age 25-35 earns: €40k

The average man between age 35-45 earns: €53.5k

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Here is a distribution of female earnings age 25-35 and 35-45 in Euro’s.

The average woman between age 25-35 earns: €31k

The average woman between age 35-45 earns: €34.7k

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Arguably the most important statistic:

Men between ages 25-45 brought in a total of €96.6 billion in 2020 (income).

Women between ages 25-45 brought in a total of €65.4 billion in 2020 (income).

Meanwhile, for every 100 men with a college degree between the ages of 25-45, there were about 116 women with at least a college degree.

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Looking at these statistics, it can be concluded that every euro of tax spend on female higher education is significantly less effective than every euro spend on male education, at least, from a direct economic and tax income perspective. This does (at least not necessarily) mean that it’s inherently less valuable to educate women from a societal perspective, because there are of course many other factors to consider.

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Occupations chosen by women: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/data/occupations

(Big fuckin lol if someone uses this post to 'prove' a pay gap)

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For the younger guys here: Don't underestimate how much you can earn by becoming specialized in a trade. With so many women have entered the workforce, certain industries have become over saturated and others in relatively very high demand. Or go into tech. As a (very) general rule of thumb: visit the website above and go for a profession where >80% is male. That's where the money is at.