Among women of the Silent Generation, only 11% had obtained at least a bachelor’s degree when they were young (ages 25 to 37 in 1968). Gains in educational attainment have been especially steep for young women. Among Millennials, around four-in-ten (39%) of those ages 25 to 37 have a bachelor’s degree or higher, compared with just 15% of the Silent Generation, roughly a quarter of Baby Boomers and about three-in-ten Gen Xers (29%) when they were the same age. Today’s young adults are much better educated than their grandparents, as the share of young adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher has steadily climbed since 1968. Now that the youngest Millennials are in their 20s, we have done a comprehensive update of our prior demographic work on generations. Those are some of the broad strokes that have emerged from Pew Research Center’s work on Millennials over the past few years. electorate (after Baby Boomers), a fact that continues to shape the country’s politics given their Democratic leanings when compared with older generations. They are also more likely to be living at home with their parents, and for longer stretches.Īnd Millennials are now the second-largest generation in the U.S. And Millennial women, like Generation X women, are more likely to participate in the nation’s workforce than prior generations.Ĭompared with previous generations, Millennials – those ages 22 to 37 in 2018 – are delaying or foregoing marriage and have been somewhat slower in forming their own households. ![]() Millennials have brought more racial and ethnic diversity to American society. ![]() In general, they’re better educated – a factor tied to employment and financial well-being – but there is a sharp divide between the economic fortunes of those who have a college education and those who don’t. Now that the youngest Millennials are adults, how do they compare with those who were their age in the generations that came before them? Over the past 50 years – from the Silent Generation’s young adulthood to that of Millennials today – the United States has undergone large cultural and societal shifts.
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