Page 2 - LIONS EYE - May, 1999 Women of the Millenium Ready for Work Force By Sarah Stover Lion's Eye Staff Writer In a recent study done by US News and World Reports, women were found to be the majority on college campuses. By 2002, women will earn 58 percent of bachelor’ S degrees in U.S. colleges. So where are the men? In the close of this year alone, women are expected to earn just over 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees, compared with 43 percent in 1970 and under 24 percent in 1950. ~The U.S. Department of Edu- cation presently estimated that by the year 2008, women will out number men in undergraduate and graduate programs by 9.2 million to 6.9 mil- lion. : With better grades, better GPAs, better resumes and a clearer sense of individuality and future goals, many females. graduate high school ready to dive right back into their education on college campuses. Many males, on the other hand, re- main behind and are tempted into making fast cash, preferring a $30,000 starting salary in fields like air-conditioning maintenance and Web design, even though the male high school graduates make an av- erage of $23,000 less than men who stick with school and graduate col- lege -and this income disparity is growing. A lot of male high school piodumney feel that they have had innovative Solutions & Support, Inc. is a diversified manufacturer of commercial & military avionics. Our 100% compound annual growth has created a variety of exciting growth opportunities. We seek individuals who will thrive in a "GAN DO" entrepreneurial environment. At 1S&S you're in control of your future & career. Your passion for achievement, will help mold our culture. Currently we're looking for: | IT SUPPORT iB Maintain & support all PC Hardware(Mac emphasis). UNIX & Windows NT exp. Required. 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I1S&S offers highly competitive salaries & benefits, career sro & the opportunity to work with state of the art avionics technologies. For consideration, mail or fax your resume with salary requirements to: Innovative Solutions & Support; Inc. enough of school, and many would simply prefer to jump right into the work force rather than go through four + more years of boring classes, term papers or student loans. Women tend to be more patient and dedicated to higher learning. With an edge on education, women could eventually close the salary gap and increasingly move into positions of power as heads of cor- porations, presidents of universities and political leaders. This is assum- ing, however, that education is the key to higher success. With unem- ployment at the lowest its been in a generation, it iS not surprising that some high school grads pass up four ‘more years of college to go out and work. For the men who are going to college, computers is where they are at. “If making money is your first goal, and if you are competent in high-paying skills, there’s no reason to finish your degree,” says Stephen Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University in Washing- ton D.C. “We shouldn’t be surprised by that. It’s demonstrated to us by that on a regular basis by people who sign up with the NBA...” His son, a 1997 graduate of Columbia-Univer- sity, had a roommate who dropped out. during his sophomore year to take a computer-related job. “By the time my son got his B.A., his former roommate was making $100,000 a year,” says Trachtenberg. Road Malvern, PA 19355 an Resources 24- Ph:(610)651-5569 nel@innovative-ss. com 3 Walt Biddle, executive direc- tor of the Career Training Founda- tion, a nonprofit group that supports U.S. trade schools, estimates that two thirds of the people entering the in- formational technology industry are male. The girls, meanwhile, are concerning themselves with better grades and higher scores. “They mature sooner, So they get more se- rious about their schoolwork,” says Delsie Phillips, director of admis- sions at Haverford College in PA. “It really shows up when you start reading applications. Girls have followed through and done all the things they are supposed to do, while the boys are still trying to find oom selves.” In addition, girls Fhilatis from high school at a higher rate than boys; in 1996, 51.2 percent of high school graduates were female. = - Girls accounted for 53.5 percent of SAT takers in that same year, and 69.7 percent of females graduate enrolled in college with in a year of graduation, compared to only 60.1 percent of boys. Boys also fail to fin- ish high school at a much higher rate; between October 1995 and October 1996, they accounted for 58 “ percent of the nation’s dropouts. Interestingly enough, as early as fourth grade, according to a Department of Education survey, - girls spend more time on their home- work than boys and they are less likely to spend time watching tele- vision or play the Nintendo 64 for hours on end. More girls become high school newspaper editors, honor society members and commu- nity service volunteers. Women, however, still have a long way to go. Among the population of full time workers, women with bachelor’s degrees still make only $4,708 more on average than men holding nothing more than a high school diploma. Why? Mostly because of women’s choice in majors: english over engineer- ing, psychology over computer sci- ence, elementary education over medicine or law...this is where it matters. “Every sort of job that is associated ‘with females is also as- sociated with declining status,” says Barbara Miller, an anthropologist and former director of woman’s stud- ies at George Washington. “They [women] are less economically promising in terms of lifetime earn- ings.” Even so, women are still tak- ing the lead in the college educated work force. Every thing takes time. If college degrees remain as impor- tant to tapping into the wealth and success in the 21st century as they have in the past, males may have to get used to the lower status that women have endured for decades. “I hope the men can accommodate what’s going to happen,” says Mortenson, “when women become the main breadwinner in the family.” Sounding Off on the Situation in Kosovo By Rob Coyle Editor-in-Chief Imagine being forced from ~ your home in the dead of night; your money and possessions taken from you at gun point; your very life threatened if you do not leave the country you and generations of your family have called home. Now imagine your own government do- ing this to you. This is the life of an ethnic Albanian in Kosovo today. We Americans have grown accustomed to hearing theses stories of hatred and genocide. It seems whenver one war ends in Western Europe, another one is scuffing at its predecessor’s heels. To many, Kosovo seems like just another trag- edy in.a long line of tragedies. Why should we risk the lives of Ameri- can soldiers to fight a war we tech- nically have nothing to do with. ? The answer to that is riddled with so much patriotism and nostal- gia it is almost sickening. Unfortunatly, it is also unnervingly true. The United States steps in be- cause we feel we have to. We are like the secret service for the rest of the world...Is that a bullet? Better jump in front of it. Our philosophy of solving the problems of the rest of the world is hazardous but effec- tive. Although we are constantly butting into things we have no busi- ness involving ourselves with, we do tend to bring them to a close. This Kosovo situation has been compared to the events in Ger- many that lead to WWII. The simi- larities are eerily similar — a tyranni- cal leader with the frenzied support of his people, the attempted genocide of an entire race of people occupy- ing the same land. It can be said that U.S. in- volvement ended the war, but you only need to look as far as Vietnam to see when U.S, involvement has been anything but successful. We lost thousands and thousands of sol- diers. We lost, period. Could Kosovo be another Vietnam? Probably not. Sure, we can pour a NATO force that is mea- sured in the hundreds of thousands into the heart of Belgrade, and we will eventually massacre our way right up to the bedroom door of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. We will carry him out in handcuffs and try him for war crimes and attrocities in front of the United Nations. And we will make him a martyr and a hero in the eyes of his followers. We then will fly our sol- diers home in bodybags and give them “proper burials” and Clinton can claim the war as yet another U.S. victory. But what did we win? Where is our parting gift? What did the par- ents of the dead soldiers receive for (Continued on page 4)
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