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Sounds like my kinda college!!! Let's just say that I fully enjoyed the almost absurd women to men ratio in college! Especially over in the liberal arts programs!
Juss sayin'!
And obviously your liberal arts degree has served you well.
And obviously your liberal arts degree has served you well.
Does it look like I'm complaining to you? Life is DAMN good.
How much my degree has contributed to my good life (beautiful wife, great son, nice home and beautiful community, good friends and a decent gig) fortune is questionable, but at least I have one.
Get yours!!! Then you won't have time to worry about how significant mine is in my life.
I think it starts from elementary school where the overwhelming majority of teachers are female and many women just have no clue about boys needs and desires and girls are more advanced (physically/emotionally) at the same age as boys. There are also all types of programs aimed to improve women in certain fields but you won't see the same for boys. Our schools are more more tailored now to serve the needs of girls that they are boys which is why we are seeing this trend.
For me, I didn't consider not going to college but I did have an attitude towards teachers that I felt discriminated against me and other boys.
Wonder if the student loan crisis will effect women more then men, since they make a vast majority of the those at university.
There are more women than men at college, but all these women are studying low-paying majors in the humanities or social sciences.
Meanwhile, all the high-paying fields: Engineering, Medicine, Economics, are all mostly men at college.
There is clearly no longer any gender wage gap, or gender discrimination. The reason why men earn more than women is because men study and work in higher-paying fields than women, and the fact that women have to take maternity leave, or often work fewer hours to take care of the children.
And no, engineering/medicine/law schools do NOT discriminate against admitting women, either. The only reason why there aren't more women in engineering or pre-law, or pre-med, is because women simply aren't as interested in high-paying fields as men are. Likely because men are the breadwinners, and women feel like they don't have as much pressure to pay the bills, because they'll get married to a man who can. Not saying that's good or bad; that's just reality.
Note that I did NOT say that women are naturally less capable than men in engineering, law, or medicine. I believe that women are just as capable, but choose lower-paying majors because they don't have the pressure to be the breadwinner. I am all for the tomboy who loves studying engineering, but why force other women who are not interested in engineering into engineering just so you can combat the imagined gender discrimination in high-paying fields?
So yes, women not only will have higher debt, but also degrees from low-paying fields.
Mainly liberal arts colleges have more women then men.
Men like their engineering, computer science and don't go to liberal arts school (in general) for their secondary education.
What's the ratio of men to women at Georgia Tech. 65% male, 35% female, MIT.....54 to 46%, 56 males to 44 female.......
Overall, most universities are filled by majority women, but your point stands. The degrees they pursue vary widely. My oldest daughter has a geographical engineering degree. She was the only female in her classes for most of her undergrad studies.
Woman follow humanities and social courses much heavier.
The men who are losers aren't going to college. The men who go to college aren't losers.
For either sex, graduating takes a lot of hard work. College prepares graduates to do hard work after graduation.
Some men, however, do enter the trades after graduation; it's a good way to climb the ladder to a management position later on.
White collar workers have different career threats than the blue collar workers.
Job insecurity comes along from different causes and different times. The cubicle guys are usually working in advance of the production guys on the floor, so layoffs can hit them first in a slowdown, but they may also come back earlier when things pick up.
The guys on the production floor can stay on the job when management is trimmed, but they can lose their job when production is streamlined.
A big advantage to a college education now is it helps a man find another job. One degree can qualify a person for many different jobs, but a blue collar job is much more specific to one kind of job alone.
A chemist, for example, can go to work for a company that makes house paint, or a company that makes plastics. The workers on the factory floors in a paint company don't know how to make plastics.
Right now, there is a skilled labor shortage that has existed for some time. Many colleges recognized that need, and as part of a degree, now teach students manufacturing skills alongside drafting skills. This allows a graduate to find a job that best fits his nature but allows much more flexibility as well.
Seems a smart choice for many to follow now (men and women) is in robotics and automation.
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