More women are leaving work to return to school than men, a New York Times article reports.
Men are more likely to take whatever job they can find, while women opt for upgrading their skills in hopes of finding the job they want later on. A quick look at most college campuses supports this. While it doesn’t necessarily tell us the whole story, 56 percent of the student population at University of Hawaii at Manoa is female.
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