She glosses over their male counterparts who, to be sure, are having similar struggles to find employment in their chosen fields amidst ongoing layoffs and the snails-paced rate of job growth, and instead focuses on the over-achieving class of females who now collect more higher education degrees than our male classmates.
Over that period, a large coastal affluent class, now increasingly elderly, enjoyed a spectacular run of rising real estate prices and in some places, like Silicon Valley, a progression of stock windfalls.