Women now dominate Britain’s universities and professions to such an extent that a leading institution has launched a campaign to recruit more “white males”. (borrowed from r/unitedkingdom)

festizian · 2012-08-19T20:09:05+00:00

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EpicJ · 2012-08-19T19:48:51+00:00

When you promote one group over another, the one not being helped will suffer, it's simple and by promoting males instead of creating a permanent fix they will just cause a problem down the line.

zarquon989 · 2012-08-19T20:27:22+00:00

Possibly related story: there's a shortage of vets willing to live in a rural area and be called out at 4 in the morning to insert their arm into a cow.

But the latest statistics show that young vets are predominantly women who prefer to specialise in treating pets in cities or certain conditions like canine disease.

A study by the University of Newcastle found the proportion of time vets in private practice spend treating animals used for food halved between 1998 and 2006.

SteelCrossx · 2012-08-19T23:58:43+00:00

White working class boys now do worse at school than any other group.

Than any other group. This isn't just for Veterinary school, this is all schooling in the UK. I understand that some group has to do the worst but this was previously one of the best (short of wealthy white males). This is an extreme change with no suggestion as to cause. In fact, on to the next paragraph!

Diane Houston, a psychology professor and graduate school dean at Kent University, said that whilst boys may be disadvantaged at school, women still faced a glass ceiling in the workplace.

The next thought is to make sure the reader is aware that women's issues are still the foremost concern even though it is only a tangentially related topic, the workplace. The fact that a men's issue can not seem to be mentioned in the major news sources without a caveat that women's issues still exist and are worse is depressing.

ZimbaZumba · 2012-08-20T00:07:18+00:00

This quote is priceless from the comments section:-

Q: What's the opposite of diversity?

A: University.

occupythekitchen · 2012-08-19T21:20:04+00:00

The problem starts before university though, since 75% of school teachers are now female, it having become a profession hostile to males.

And female teachers have been demonstrated to mark boys more unfairly.

As well as this, the education system in the UK has been changed to meet female learning styles, with more coursework, groupwork and hoop jumping, and less exams and indivual work and challenges.

The result is that boys are bored and demoralised in schools, so it's no surprise they are performing less well A Level, and then are less likely to attain university places.

The problem is the institutional discrimination against males throughout the schooling years; positive discrimination at university entrance level is too little too late.

AmazingFlightLizard · 2012-08-19T21:39:50+00:00

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Ted8367 · 2012-08-20T00:15:10+00:00

Diane Houston, a psychology professor and graduate school dean at Kent University, said that whilst boys may be disadvantaged at school, women still faced a glass ceiling in the workplace... “But I’m not sure that at this point we should be screaming about percentage differences in attainment given the way in which women’s careers atrophy through their reproductive lives. There may be more women training to be solicitors, but the judges are men.”

Thanks, Diane. For a moment there I thought we were forgetting about the people who really matter. /s

squeak6666yw · 2012-08-20T00:39:05+00:00

I love personally how an article about how men are being underrepresented at colleges end with talk of the glass ceiling woman have to deal with.

rogersmith25 · 2012-08-19T20:33:43+00:00

Funny how it took reaching 90%-female enrollment for them to finally realize that there is a problem.

ttnorac · 2012-08-20T02:27:40+00:00

This is what happens when you teach to girls only and put the boys on drugs.

ThePigman · 2012-08-20T02:52:46+00:00

Neither the plutocracy nor the feminists will tolerate such campaigns for long.

millertime73 · 2012-08-19T21:26:43+00:00

Seeing things like this must make an SRS'ers dick hard.

Octagonecologyst · 2012-08-19T21:42:06+00:00

The principal cause of this imbalance is feminism and it will continue unless male politicians lose their puerile fear of the feminists and legislate sensibly for equality. A second cause is in education -influenced principally by three factors. The first is the almost total loss of single sex education - which has a much worse effect in the classroom on boys than on girls. Another is the almost complete absence of any male influence in the primary sector - a tremendous deprivation for the education of boys . The icing on the girls' cake is the examination system deliberately slanted to play to their strengths and the male weaknesses. It is just possible that the enforcement of proper examination standards and the introduction of free schools may start to redeem the system and achieve a better and more valid balance.

This motherfucker right here NAILED it.

mayonesa · 2012-08-19T20:03:50+00:00

This is great in that now they're looking to recruit more white males, who have traditionally been the targets of academia.

However, it has two huge problems:

The simpler and better solution would be simply to stop the pro-female and pro-non-white subsidy. This caused the problematic situation and reversing it would be the cleanest exit.
The academic environment is still hostile to heterosexuals, men, European Caucasians, conservatives and non-detail-oriented thinkers.

As a result, this is one contrarian band-aid on top of the big ill-advised band-aid that is PC and the corresponding affirmative action style quotas.

badgerbadgerbacon · 2012-08-19T19:50:36+00:00

While the figures are depressing, it's heartening to see the issue has been recognised and is being addressed.

DavidByron · 2012-08-20T04:40:28+00:00

Men and boys doing far worse, feminists say solution is more for women and girls. What a shock.

By the way? the reason universities care about how few men there are attending is that women don't like applying to colleges that have few men at them. So when a university gets as bad as these 3:1 or 4:1 ratios the girls want to go somewhere else because they'll be too much competition for sex for the few male students around.

At Cambridge for example, where the last all-male college went mixed while I was there, there were two all women colleges (with no plans to admit men of course), but they were the bottom of the league for desirability by female applicants.

southernasshole · 2012-08-20T12:05:37+00:00

Affirmative action is probably the most garbage form of band-aid equality.

ZimbaZumba · 2012-08-20T15:25:55+00:00

I'm an Aussie and want to shed some light on this- a tradie (labourer or brickie) only has to go to TAFE and get on-the-job training as well and they usually end up earning more than many people who went to uni. So why would a guy sign up for 4 years in uni when you can just go to the mines or get a job as a brickie or labourer and end up earning more than you'd get in a white-collar job in an office or a bank. Also, here in the land of drop bears, you graduate with a huge debt of about 40 grand or more if you couldn't afford to pay your own way. In Perth where I live, there was recently complaints from physiotherapy students that their qualifications were no longer recognized and they went through uni for nothing.

2012-08-19T23:11:16+00:00

This will be called raysis in 3....2....1......

lazydonovan · 2012-08-19T21:49:50+00:00

This belongs in r/wtf

tiyx · 2012-08-20T00:31:38+00:00

If they are doing the job in a right way, then I see no problem.

2012-08-20T11:20:11+00:00

To be honest, it really isn't that much of a difference. I go to Kent university and at best I'd say it's a 2:1 ratio, it also depends on the different degrees.

There is a higher portion of women doing law, humanities, sociology compared to men who do computer science, engineering, physics (there are still both sexes well represented in each course, hell, mine had a whole 5 girls in it).

It's a bit of a no-go piece, especially if you don't have any previous experience with British universities and are from across the pond.

2012-08-20T19:47:36+00:00

Does anyone have figures showing how many men are opting for trade school or apprenticeship over university training? I'm not discrediting the article, I'm just curious. Maybe fewer men are going to college because college is no longer a guarantee that you will get a high-paying job?

klonozopanour · 2012-08-21T16:40:52+00:00

Fuck "EDUCATION".

Formal education is inantely created to subjugate men.

Men should find REAL education on the street.

Join a gang, enter the military for combat training, and learn how to exploit and manipulate. If you're not exploiting or manipulating, chances are you're the one being exploited and manipulated.

Do NOT work a "real" job. The economy is geared towards having a vagina. This society does not believe masculinity deserves to work. If you want to celebrate what you are, what this government has deemed illegal, then you've no choice but to be a criminal.

If you've got a dick, there's no other way to freedom.

The cads of the UK have the right idea.

In this world where masculinity is criminal, to be a criminal is the only way left to be a man.

Aaod · 2012-08-22T02:36:34+00:00

said that whilst boys may be disadvantaged at school, women still faced a glass ceiling in the workplace. Sure but they get in easier which people will tell you is usually the hardest part of getting a job.

occupythekitchen · 2012-08-19T21:35:28+00:00

you got address the root of the problem. Boys and girls should be taught separately. I can tell all of you that my puberty made some of my teachers hate me and some of my grades to fall because I was too busy trying to draw attention to me.

I'm not talking about college just between 12-16 or so.

MrStonedOne · 2012-08-19T20:51:22+00:00

inb4 "THAT'S SEXIST"

SexistMan · 2012-08-20T11:40:43+00:00

White men as a fucking minority. WTF is happening to the world?

This is just a vet school, though. It's not like it's real medicine. I bet the real medical students that are on their way to be coming doctors are still men, because most women just won't work that hard.

Title	Women now dominate Britain’s universities and professions to such an extent that a leading institution has launched a campaign to recruit more “white males”. (borrowed from r/unitedkingdom)
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Date	August 19, 2012 7:35 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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