<p>These statistics are surprising to me. I understand that more women than men are attending college today, but I did not realize it was this skewed. I cannot believe the article is entirely accurate.</p>
<p>Hahaha yet still, we gotta give women that much-needed edge in admissions because men dominate higher education, right?</p>
<p>Do women still get an edge in admissions? If so, you are right, that would be unfair if the statistics in this article are accurate. Although, I can see giving women an edge in underrepresented majors (i.e., maybe engineering), but then men should get the edge in underrepresented majors as well (i.e…not sure what those would be, but surely there are some!)</p>
<p>There are some hidden reasons behind the numbers, but for the most part, they are accurate. For instance, the master’s degree numbers are hiding the fact that a vast number of the master’s degrees women earn are in education - throw those numbers out and the numbers are a little more even. (FWIW, there is little evidence that a master’s in education does anything to improve the delivery of education in the classroom - but it boosts the pay of teachers and is paid for by the school districts, so they march off to get their mostly worthless master’s degrees. If you doubt my statement, check out the curriculum requirements for any master’s in education let alone an Ed. D. They are almost all warmed over courses in Marxism.)</p>
<p>Another problem with male success in education has to do with how early education is now designed - it is very much female-centric. The ideal student is the good little girl who sits nicely and works cooperatively in groups. None of this rough and tumble boys stuff, with time for recess and burning off excess energy. And don’t get me started about the “safe” playground and all the banned games at recess and gym. Even the book assignments are aimed at girls - always fiction stories where there is always a lesson about cooperation and getting along. Non-fiction books that appeal to young male beginning readers are absent in many if not most school libraries, or if they are there, they are not assigned to the whole class, as they are considered not female-friendly.</p>
<p>Once you start down the path of making school a place boys don’t like, they fall behind and don’t do well. And once you start not doing well, it’s difficult to get back on track. Twelve years later, you see the consequences.</p>
<p>There is a lot of truth in what you say - from my own observations, the girls have always liked reading way more than the boys. It did not occur to me that perhaps the books themselves (meaning, the subject matter) are the culprit.</p>
<p>At the bachelor’s degree level, health professions (presumably including nursing), public administration, education, and psychology are among the most female-heavy majors. Engineering and computer science are among the most male-heavy majors.</p>
<p>Note that not all “STEM” majors are male-heavy. Biology, the most popular type of “STEM” major, is nearly 60% female at the bachelor’s degree level.</p>
<p>I think a lot of this has to do with the difference in maturity at the adolescent level between females and males. Females hit puberty earlier, and I’ve read a few studies that show that girls are more self-motivated than guys (which would probably result in higher overall grades and bigger aspirations) at the high school and bachelor degree level. And, of course, you have to remember the disparity between the relative number of females in tech or stem driven courses and humanities courses.</p>
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Don’t forget the Marxist teachers.</p>
<p>@sweetcornundrum, women don’t get an admissions boost now (other than maybe to some engineering or business schools where they are still underrepresented).</p>
<p>Men get a boost now at a handful of LACs (where they are under-represented).</p>
<p>Class-balancing on the whole probably does favor men at this point, since well-qualified men are in somewhat short supply at some schools, and to get an equal male-female ratio, men are allowed in with slightly lower stats compared to women. And yes, maturity has a whole lot to do with it, as anyone who has raised both a girl and a boy can testify to.</p>
<p>There’s a reason 9th grade girls don’t date 9th grade boys, and that’s because 9th grade boys are idiots.</p>
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<p>Exactly. Engineering and CS are still boy-heavy so do actively seek out talented girls.</p>
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<p>And, yes indeed. This isn’t necessary at the tippy top universities, but certainly at most LACs and Us. It’s hard to find any that are 50-50 male-female and colleges say if they go much past 6-040 the school becomes less desirable for both men and women.</p>
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