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Check out Tamar Lewin of the NY Times on "At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust"
Some quotes:
"Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to get bachelor's degrees — and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women."
"In two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates."
"Men were more likely than women to skip classes, not complete their homework and not turn it in on time." (I believe I have some Professori readers who can comment.)
"At Harvard, 55 percent of the women graduated with honors this spring, compared with barely half the men. And at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, a public university, women made up 64 percent of this year's graduates, and they got 75 percent of the honors degrees and 79 percent of the highest honors, summa cum laude."
And yet...
"At Brown University, men made up not quite 40 percent of this year's applicants, but 47 percent of those admitted."
How tiresome.
Gradewise, men currently cluster a tiny bit at the top & bottom of the GPA scale, but the majority spread across C-averageville, while women are getting A's and B's. Men are a disproportionate number of academic probation lists and virtually all the discipline cases. (Discipline cases? In college? Gimme a break. Toss their asses.)
One thought is that because boys mature slower than girls, they aren't as ready to structure their time appropriately upon leaving for college at age 18. (I'm here to tell you age doesn't matter. They never will be.) Boys in the Times article also say social pressure exists against hard academic work - it isn't cool for dudes to study. Why the hell should it be, when currently men still make higher starting salaries than women?
This statistic gives me comfort:
"Men now make up only 42 percent of the nation's college students."
If that trend keeps going, eventually you'll have the same gender stats in the white collar workforce. More women will be in managerial positions, simply for a lack of qualified white-collar workers, if not for reasons of fairness and capability. What right-minded manager would promote men who've been coasting on C-average sense of entitlement, stacked up against women with academic honors and a work ethic cultivated since their teens? So what if the woman may take off for awhile to have a kid. The pool of temporary or replacement workers will be female-dominated, too, with the same superior CV's.
My advice to teenage girls is they don't need my advice. Keep doing what you're doing babies, and thanks for changing the world.
Teenage boys don't need my advice either. They have Laura Bush.
Some quotes:
"Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to get bachelor's degrees — and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women."
"In two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates."
"Men were more likely than women to skip classes, not complete their homework and not turn it in on time." (I believe I have some Professori readers who can comment.)
"At Harvard, 55 percent of the women graduated with honors this spring, compared with barely half the men. And at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, a public university, women made up 64 percent of this year's graduates, and they got 75 percent of the honors degrees and 79 percent of the highest honors, summa cum laude."
And yet...
"At Brown University, men made up not quite 40 percent of this year's applicants, but 47 percent of those admitted."
How tiresome.
Gradewise, men currently cluster a tiny bit at the top & bottom of the GPA scale, but the majority spread across C-averageville, while women are getting A's and B's. Men are a disproportionate number of academic probation lists and virtually all the discipline cases. (Discipline cases? In college? Gimme a break. Toss their asses.)
One thought is that because boys mature slower than girls, they aren't as ready to structure their time appropriately upon leaving for college at age 18. (I'm here to tell you age doesn't matter. They never will be.) Boys in the Times article also say social pressure exists against hard academic work - it isn't cool for dudes to study. Why the hell should it be, when currently men still make higher starting salaries than women?
This statistic gives me comfort:
"Men now make up only 42 percent of the nation's college students."
If that trend keeps going, eventually you'll have the same gender stats in the white collar workforce. More women will be in managerial positions, simply for a lack of qualified white-collar workers, if not for reasons of fairness and capability. What right-minded manager would promote men who've been coasting on C-average sense of entitlement, stacked up against women with academic honors and a work ethic cultivated since their teens? So what if the woman may take off for awhile to have a kid. The pool of temporary or replacement workers will be female-dominated, too, with the same superior CV's.
My advice to teenage girls is they don't need my advice. Keep doing what you're doing babies, and thanks for changing the world.
Teenage boys don't need my advice either. They have Laura Bush.
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