Double bind

Young women in traditional colleges are responding to the need to be better educated than their male counterparts, even if that means working for less money. The women I interview are earning the most expensive, most contested of all college credentials not to be competitive but to survive.

via Gender, Race, And Going To Class: A Call For A Feminist Reading of For-Profit Colleges? | The Feminist Wire.

Can’t get a job without an education, getting an education puts you in permanent debt. There are no good choices.