College 'gender gap' favoring women stops growing

2010-01-27T05:59:04+00:00

"The U.S. Civil Rights Commission is investigating whether private liberal arts colleges in the Washington, D.C., area are discriminating against women in an effort to better balance their enrollments."

Ha.

plumeria · 2010-01-26T21:51:12+00:00

I thought this was an interesting, albeit brief, article. Of particular interest to me was this part:

However, the analysis by the Washington-based American Council on Education shows the disparity lies largely in the fact that men are much less likely than women to go to college - or return to college - later in life: Undergraduate men age 25 or older are outnumbered by women in the same age group 2-to-1.

Did anyone else hear the recent news programs on NPR about furniture factory closings in the south, and the attempts to re-train displaced factory workers for more IT-focused jobs? I think that neither of the workers (one male, one female) had any luck with that after their training. It seems like I do recall more nontrads as an undergraduate being women who were finally able to focus on their own education after having to leave school or the workforce to care for children, but it seems like this disparity is troublesome considering the amount of "good factory jobs" going the way of the dodo, and the men who typically held many of these jobs right out of high school having their financial futures at risk.

Title	College 'gender gap' favoring women stops growing
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Date	January 26, 2010 9:44 PM UTC (16 years ago)
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