<p>At my school, there is a huge inequality in regards to the gender of top students -- males such as myself are greatly outnumbered by females, and I think I'm the only guy in the top 10 of my class. Of the 24 rising juniors who have GPAs above 4.0, only five (including myself) are guys.</p>
<p>How is the gender balance at your school? Is my class just an outlier?</p>
<p>as long as everyone was judged according to the same criteria, I don’t think it’s really important <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>I just thought it was interesting, haha.</p>
<p>Here that’s normal. Girls outperform boys over large numbers, that’s why girls’ schools always have the best results. It’s even compensated for in entrance exams to schools for6th grade.</p>
<p>It’s not discrimination but its the same here. I’m one of 2 guys in our top 10.</p>
<p>It’s pretty even at my school. In fact, there are exactly 6 boys and 6 girls in the top 10 (there are 12 because of ties).</p>
<p>“The problem with your question is that it assumes that women are people.”</p>
<p>I’m paraphrasing, I forget where I heard that. #drama #inequality #offensive</p>
<p>No girls in the top 10 at my school. #blatantmisogyny</p>
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that’s horrible! :(</p>
<p>Why? Boys get extra points in the exam so the selective schools aren’t imbalanced.</p>
<p>8 people with 4.00s in my grade. 7 are female.</p>
<p>I know I’m going to get politically incorrect here…but I think girls are more likely to freak on getting there 92 to be a 93 and guys are more chill…</p>
<p>Although more guys are in APs in my school…</p>
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Because it’s still discrimination… Discriminating to make sure that only one sex gets an opportunity is just as bad as discriminating to keep a balance. It’s still discrimination. </p>
<p>It should only be about how qualified someone is. Sex should not play a role</p>
<p>Of our Junior Marshalls (top 15 ranks), there are 6 guys and 9 girls. </p>
<p>Although it is somewhat weighted in the girls’ favor, it’s not too drastic.</p>
<p>Same at my school. Of the top 10 in our current class only two are male. </p>
<p>Girls perform exceedingly well compared to boys in both the high school and college level. In fact IIRC that in pretty much every college except at top schools and tech/engineering schools, and especially at liberal arts colleges, men are usually given preferential treatment in the application process women are so overwhelmingly represented. Guys are several times less likely to graduate either high school or college and have lower grades on average. But at the same time, there is still a gap in average salary and men still occupy more of the top positions. A man is many, many times more likely to be a CEO or hold political office. </p>
<p>So it seems that men typically occupy both extremes while women tend toward the upper-middle?</p>
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That partly has to do with discrimination, and partly has to do with the fact that more guys go into business and politics than women</p>
<p>My class’ top two are males, but I believe the remainder of the top ten are females (or, at least, everyone else I can think of). Our valedictorians tend to be girls as well–although my year will be a notable exception.</p>
<p>I’ve noticed that girls tend to try harder than guys do in high school, which isn’t a bad thing at all. Based on what I’ve seen in my high school at least, girls tend to take more honors classes than guys do (my honors english class having like 8 guys and 15 girls, and my honors social studies class last year having 3 guys and 15 girls).</p>
<p>I never really paid attention to gender statistics in my school when it comes to academic rigor.</p>
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<p>Am I the only one seeing a parallel to income- and race-based affirmative action?</p>
<p>@red The chart just compares the average income of the working woman versus the working man. It doesn’t take into account what jobs are being done. You can say that men earn more on average then women, but you can’t say it’s “for the same work” from that graph.
I don’t like how whenever women are less represented in a field or the like people automatically assume it’s discrimination, while if it’s the same thing with men, it’s automatically assumed that there isn’t any discrimination.
I’m not denying that there’s discrimination against working women or that it’s much more significant than discrimination against working me, but there are other factors at play. I don’t doubt that women are sometimes paid less for being women, but, in some fields, perhaps there just happen to be less women interested. People don’t seem to make a big deal when men are less represented in certain fields, but when women are less represented, people start making a big deal out of it. I think that it’s important to consider all the factors. There might be more then just discrimination going on.</p>
<p>You say that the OP’s school’s ranking is just a coincidence, because people don’t usually discriminate against males. That worried me. If the OP wrote the opposite (more guys then girls who are higher ranked), would you assume that there is discrimination? What if some guys just happened to be more hard working? Sorry, but there is a bit of radical feminism there. There is discrimination against men, even though it’s highly less common then discrimination against women, and denying that doesn’t help the case for women.</p>