The Oct. 21 Sacramento Bee cited a study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Off Ramps and On Ramps, which concluded that 93 percent of highly qualified, educated women want to go back to work after raising children. Of these, 75% actually find a job and only 40% return to full time work.
Our society is educating women, but not utilizing their skills. If employment discrimination against women and older workers is not stopped, we will have a generation of women going into old age in poverty in need of social services from the government. The government has two choices: stop discrimination and put women to work in the fields they are educated in or have a massive poverty problem on its hands.