As the bottom chart above shows, 1981 was the last year that men received more college degrees than women, and the female-male "degree gap" has increased in every year since, and is projected by the Department of Education to increase further through 2017 when women will receive 158 colleges degrees (at all levels) for every 100 degrees received by men.

On this Father's Day, we should maybe recognize that we are witnessing what might possibly be a permanent structural change in the labor market and higher education, which will have profound and lasting implications for family roles, career choices, divorce settlements and chil