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Modern women are more likely to be better educated, financially independent and in paid work than their mothers’ generation, according to research by the Dutch statistics office CBS.
Sociologist Tanja Traag compared two cohorts of men and women when they were between the ages of 30 and 35: those born between 1955 and 1960, and those born from 1975 to 1980.
She found that women in the younger group were more likely to be highly educated than men of the same age, and their participation in the jobs market has dramatically increased.