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Women are a lot more likely to go to college than men. [0] If you work in a factory, or planned to, you probably didn't go to college. For all the attention th
by pmorici 10y ago
Women are a lot more likely to go to college than men. [0] If you work in a factory, or planned to, you probably didn't go to college.
For all the attention that is given to the lack of women in CS and Engineering the story in aggregate for all majors is that women outnumber men at colleges. It's been that way since 2000 and the trend has continued in the past 17 years. Its to the point where women outnumber men two to one at some large schools like UNC which are, for example, 60% female. [1]
[0] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72 https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72
[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashion/07campus.html
- douche 10y agoUnfortunately one of the results of that trend has been a lot of young women with less-than-useful degrees and mountains of student loan debt, working rather low-paying jobs. Which, to be brutally honest, makes them rather unattractive marriage partners, all other things being equal.
- hunglee2 10y agoVery important point. Unequal distribution in higher education will exacerbate the issues raised in this post. Unfortunately, we are looking at a near future where increasingly large percentage of unemployed people in the West will be young, sexually unsuccessful males.