|
|
Article: LETTER : Women graduates struggle to get jobs too
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 19, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
|
THE article by Simon Midgley and Barrie Clement, "So what is
the point of young men?" (12 March), contained a couple of
misleading statements concerning the relative successes of men and
women graduates in obtaining jobs.
First, the figures apparently showing that "women graduates now
find it easier to get jobs than their male counterparts" are
considerably biased by teacher- training courses where women
outnumber men by four to one. Since more than four-fifths of these
graduates find permanent jobs, excluding them ...