It is no secret that the educational growth, earning power, and consequently the purchasing power of women today is on a definite upward trend, and has been trending in that direction for some time. For example, women currently earn more bachelor&rsquos 57.2 and master&rsquos 58.9 degrees than men source national center for education statistics. And women&rsquos median incomes, at least when compared with men&rsquos, have been rapidly climbing. In the past three decades men&rsquos median income has grown just 0.6 while women&rsquos median income has grown an impressive 63 source business week, feb. 2005.
