Women’s enrollment increases while men’s interest in college decreases

Maybe men have realized that a BA in History, etc., is just a bad investment, hence the far-greater numbers of men in STEM fields where the ROI is greater. Men know they don't have the luxury of just graduating and finding a husband to finance their poor college major decision, so they major in something valuable in the job market. It's that simple. College, when you go for majors that pay off, are worth it. When you don't, they're not. Women know (or think) they can count on getting a man to pay for them after college so they major in anything they feel like. Men don't have that luxury so they decide accordingly.

society doesn't sacrifice the s.t.e.m. fields at the altar of feminism or affirmative action, we still have a chance. an engineer, m.d. or scientist is waaay smarter, on average, than say a social studies major, or music major, or a doctor of feminist studies. they go where it is easy, get the guaranteed (aa) degree, and then complain they don't make as much as an actual college graduate. otoh, a plumber or electrician will probably make more in life than someone w/ a soft degree in a tough economy. see who gets laid off when things get tough? women.

women have a kid w/o an official husband and college becomes free, + lots more freebies. article yesterday says we spend $60k per welfare household in this country. who needs a hubby? besides, in that semi-free gov. financed luxury apartment complex down the street, men just come and go all over the place to these women led welfare households. no husbands required, or wanted $$$$.

put food in the trough every day and the pigs will show up. that's how hogzilla got so big. he found the farmer's fish food. proof? go to the malls and see the local hogzillas waddle around, snacking as they go. husbands just everywhere looking for that. free birth control? free abortions? the $$$ is in production of more w/o fathers and playing the victim card, 24/7.

build it and they will come ... and then demand it for their own. the future belongs to the guys/gals who strive to build it on their own.

... and if we keep going the way we are, the U.S. will actually start forcing colleges to reduce headcount in them because too many girls don't want to go into STEM fields.

The world doesn't need more English majors.  Or, I should say, the job market doesn't need them.  Maybe society *does* need more English majors, but that's a moral judgment.  But the labor market?  That's not a moral judgment.  That's supply and demand.  And what does our economy desperately need?  STEM workers.

STEM is where it's at and will stay that way pretty much indefinitely.  It's much more important to be valuable to the market and/or your employer than to have a college degree in something.   [Bill Gates had no college degree-- he didn't need one, he had 1) smarts, 2) ambition, 3) the right idea at the right time and 4) he knew to pursue it.  None of that requires a college degree.]  While it's true on average ppl with college degrees make a lot more scratch over their lifetimes than those without, it's also true that that oft-cited fact (cited by colleges, of course) don't supply you the degree-type breakdown, nor mention if the college graduate also did or did not go on to get a grad degree in something (and was that degree in the same field of study as the undergrad degree?).  Point is, if I learn to program computers myself over the course of a month and can show a prospective employer that I can do the job, and will do it at a discount until or unless I fully prove myself-- well, in this economy, I have a good chance of getting hired.  Now if I seek a job, any job, with same employer and have a Ph.D. in History and nothing else but my outstanding knowledge of, say, Russian history and great research skills, I'll likely be shown the door pretty fast.  Actually, I probably won't even get a reply to my calls or emails to my wannabe employer.  And that's just how it is.

But anyway, aside from liberal arts and STEM, what else do colleges have?  Business, applied arts, and sports program mgt., maybe.  So how many undergrads are in those areas as a percentage of undergrads?  Hmmm, maybe 5%?  Not enough to save the colleges from the wrath of The STEM Feminists when they sic the gov't on them.

I predict the result will be more college-aged American men going abroad to go to college so they can major in STEM areas.  In short, U.S. male college enrollment will decline further with only a small %age of U.S. men being able to go abroad for college.  The rest will try to find work here rather than go $100k in debt for a B.A. in English or whatever.

As for there being more women in STEM, there will be an increase, but not by that much, simply because the interest isn't there.  Net result: Ever-declining male college enrollment, fewer STEM workers in the market requiring U.S. employers to seek more foreign STEM workers even than now, U.S. unemployment thus increasing, and colleges' income from tuition declining.

Only good thing I see from this is colleges, now charging outrageous sums for tuition, will lose income-- and it'll be because they have been pandering, craven feminista-collaborators for decades.  Like the former PM of Australia, they'll be hoisted on their own petards.  Soon American colleges will be occupied almost exclusively by female students pursuing largely worthless college degrees and getting into outrageous debt doing so, all while colleges will be scrambling to find ways to make up the 20-30% revenue drop because they were forced under Title IX Redux to cut half their STEM classes, thus losing students who won't pay $120k for a useless degree, which'll include tuition rate raises on the remaining students, of course.  In short: college women will end up paying yet more for college degrees of dubious value while young men attend college less and less.  Meanwhile, STEM worker-strapped employers will have to look harder for workers and pay more for the ones they find, ultimately reducing innovation and deterring business expansion and success.

Never let it be said that feminist ideological doctrine needed to intersect with common sense, much less "equality of the sexes".