CBS: 'Ditching Boys: Why Attending a Womens’ College is a Great Idea'

Submitted by anthony on Wed, 2009-09-02 19:08

Article here. Excerpt:

'Spending four years at a girls’ high school was life changing. I not only received a first-class education, but I regained the confidence that slipped away during my middle-schools years and I discovered that boys aren’t the only ones who can be leaders.

Because of my love of girls’ schools, I was fascinated to stumble across research that bears out what I experienced as a teenager. The longitudinal study, which surveyed alumni from a 27-year-period, found that undergrads who studied at women’s colleges rated their schools more highly than females who attended state universities or even coed liberal arts colleges.'

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I think it may have been a long time since the author went to college.

If she were recently an undergraduate, she would likely know that the typical coed school's student body makeup is 57% female in the first year but goes up to being 70% female by graduation. She would know most if not in some cases all the top graduates are female, those receiving most of the awards for academic and related performance are female, most of the club and interest group leaders are female (except those inherently single-sex, such as fraternities), and most of those going on to grad school are female.

Coed environments inhibiting girls from developing leadership skills and positions? Not that I can tell. But if she feels in order for her to build her leadership skills it is good she went to a women's college, that's fine. But I have to ask, 1) What's wrong with developing leadership skills at a coed school *and* being female, given it is so commonplace, and 2) since the world is made up of people of both sexes (well, for now, anyway), does she think girls are better off if they develop leadership skills in the absence of boys only to find out when they graduate that, guess what, there are boys in the world too and since you spent the last 4 years learning to lead other women, don't you think you may need some remedial work on developing leadership skills around men now? Heck you could have gotten all your bases covered if you had just gone to a coed school!

But what it all comes down to it is this: This article is thinly-veiled sexism and sideways male-bashing. It's this kind of thing that has so badly infected "higher educational" thinking that it has actually started to deter boys from going to college. But hey, equality is fine as long as it's women who wind up "more equal" than men, isn't it?

Number of women's colleges in the US: 69
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/Colleges_and_Universities/United_States/Women_s_Colleges/

Number of men's colleges in the US: 4
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Higher_Education/Colleges_and_Universities/United_States/Men_s_Colleges/

Enrolled gender ratio: Male: 43% ; Female: 57%
http://www.cardinalpointsonline.com/2.7384/colleges-aim-to-equalize-male-female-ratio-1.782117

Graduation rate: Male: 25% ; Female: 35%
http://doctorpion.blogspot.com/2009/06/gender-of-college-students-vs-time.html

Equality! Hooray!

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Submitted by mcc99 on Wed, 2009-09-02 20:16

...as long as they have no competition from males, then they fall way behind, including in the leadership stakes. Remember folks, almost 60% of the people who vote in Dem primaries are women yet they chose the man over the woman.

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Submitted by MichaelClaymore on Thu, 2009-09-03 02:36

except manage to pay for college themselves.

handouts at every level.

ex: have a child out of wedlock- instant ticket to free college.
ex: women only scholarships
ex: title IX "sports" scholarships
ex: minority women only scolarships
ex: falsely claim rape/abuse - free gov $$ via v.a.w.a.
and many many many more free $$$ handouts for the "fairer" sex.

what gets me is how, once they achieve these pretend "honors",
in these feminist infested colleges,
they act like they did it all in the face of the adversity of the glass ceiling.
i know from experience how hard it is for guys to make it through college
while working part time jobs.

amerikan women are a joke. their "education" is a joke.
yeah guys, keep telling them how special they are. that
will help the u.s. compete on the world stage, where our competitors
don't have affirmative action to put up with.

but hey, think of all the inventions and breakthroughs
they have been producing with all these advantages?????????
oh, they haven't really stepped up? imagine that.

so what if they quit at age 28 to become a housewife,
or live off alimony, or C.S. , welfare, or milk the system, again
in any number of other ways. they are victims. you don't need
REAL doctors, or engineers.

"obama wants to help women get a college education".
the king of handouts.

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Submitted by daveinga on Thu, 2009-09-03 03:59