Absolutely fascinating article in the NYT concerning gender differences in higher education. I guess it gives me such a chuckle because I'm old enough to remember when the notion of a woman going to college was still a little bit cutting edge and I was certainly counseled to go for a teaching degree rather than, say, a law degree. My mom didn't go to college and my grandmother lived at a time when people seriously argued that college would be "bad" for women and that women just weren't "up to" doing stressful, college-level work. She did get a year at a women's musical seminary.
But as the times article notes, women are now attending college in greater numbers than men and are doing far better than men once they are there, earning, for example, the majority of honors degrees. Now, "[c]reating a balance of men and women is . . . an issue for all but the most elite colleges, whose huge applicant pools let them fill their classes with any desired mix of highly-qualified men and women But for others, it is a delicate issue. Colleges want balance, both for social reasons and to ensure that they can attract a broad mix of applicants. But they do not want an atmosphere in which talented, hard-working women share classes with less qualified, less engaged men."
Bwhahahhahha! Whoops, sorry. No gloating allowed. OK.
The article also touches on the much-reported "boy problem," the notion that there's somehow something terribly wrong with the current situation where girls are outpacing boys. As the mother of a son and the grandmother of a grandson, I've no desire to see boys do poorly. But I have to agree with Dr. Kleinfeld who is quoted in the article: "I hate to be cynical, but when it was a problem of black or poor kids, nobody cared, but now that it's a problem of white sons of college-educated parents, it's moving very rapidly to the forefront," Dr. Kleinfeld said. "At most colleges, there is a sense that a lot of boys are missing in action."
And, as the NYT notes, men still earn more money than women. For now.
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As it was once explained to me, men's capabilities can be thought of as a reverse bell curve, while women are more baseline. In other words, there are more men geniuses than women, percentage wise to their respective full sets. Since it really isn't that hard to get honors in college, the social openings of women into college as a standard means that more women are going to get those honors, by basis of having a continuous increase in percentage. QED.
Or, to put it another way, I had a student who I had to position so that he wasn't watching my sister's tele while I tutored him in algebra. His mother caught on a great gambit of only taking little Tommy to Michael a day or two before a test. He'd do well on the test, and some homework for a week, and be gone for a month and a half. My other students were two times a week, so I put down the hammer and asked for a steady gig. Never saw them again. Now, a girl student had progressed enough to ask me to stop tutoring, and didn't call me back for refresh sessions for six months. On the other hand, my sister never remembered what she learned in school, such that it all went away within a month of summer.
Regarding why more women are going to college now than men:
if my experience in undergrad was at all typical, the excess of women is not due to a triumph of feminism but due to "traditional values" at work -- it was due to immigrant families sending their daughters to college in order for them to find the right kind of husband (against which standard their daughters dutifully rebelled) while they kept their sons at home in order to work in the family business.
Of course, those parents then couldn't understand why their daughters were finding boyfriends outside the ethnicity -- they didn't realize that all boys from their ethnicity were being kept at home to work in the family business while only the daughters were being sent to college ...
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