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As the Wall Street Journal noted this week in "Guys Left Behind (GLBs)," though we still haven't elected a female president (apparently the yardstick of equality these days), women are making it in terms of college education (nearly 60% of grads are women), political muscle (53% of 2008 electorate were women), market influence (women control 80% of consumer spending) and employment. It was reported earlier this year that women are close to surpassing men in the work force, while unemployment statistics hover at 5.9% for women vs. a higher 7.2% for men. Just over 49% of nonfarm workers are women, according figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2008. And despite the largely unequal paychecks drawn by Baby Boomers and Gen X, the gap is closing between male and female urban workers in their 20s.

-Forbes
June 3 2009