Comments on: By The Numbers: Females & the Creative Class

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:19:11 +0000

Thanks Steven, that makes more sense. As Richard said, if 23% are women and 40% are creative class then more women than men are creative class, which correlates somewhat to university graduation rates between the sexes.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:40:33 +0000

All- 23 percent of the workforce is creative class women. That’s sounds really good. My guess is that 40 percent of the DC workforce is creative class, which would mean women make up more than half.

Steven – do you have handy the women as percent of creative class share? BTW, very nice work on the GWI, Greater Washington Talent study!

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:50:21 +0000

Wendy:

Thanks for the question. The percentages represent the percentage of the workforce that is female creative class members.

For example,

In Washington, DC 23% of the workforce are female creative class members.

By: John

John — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:46:31 +0000

Wendy asked the first question I had: what are these percentages?

If you’re going to do something called “By the Numbers” regularly, it would help to explain what the numbers are.

Of course, whether these numbers are percentage of women in the creative class or percentage of the creative class that’s women, the larger point is still missing: and this tells us what, exactly? The answer to life is 42?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:50:34 +0000

Intresting: some clarification / definitions required I think. Does the first graph mean that 25% of the creative class is female, or that 25% of women in the labour force are in creative occupations.

Either way, that number seems low given that 55% of both undergrad and masters degrees now go to females.