Georgetown University Study Shows Higher Education Does Little to Close Inequalities of Race and Gender

Georgetown University Study Shows Higher Education Does Little to Close Inequalities of Race and Gender: Recent studies have uncovered the benefits of higher education, showing that college graduates continually outpace their less-educated counterparts in lifetime earnings.

But according to a new report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, college education does little to eradicate widening inequalities between men and women as well as Whites and minorities.

The report, The College Payoff, is an update of a 2002 Census study, which analyzed 1998 demographic data. In the report, the authors looked at ties between occupations and race, gender and earnings.

The report found that college graduates earn 84 percent more than high school graduates, earning an average of $2.3 million over a lifetime.