
The gender gap on college campuses
Article here. Excerpt:
'The dominance of female students at U.S. colleges these days is hardly a secret, but the extent of it sometimes is staggering.
An acquaintance who teaches honors seminars at Colorado State University recently told me, for example, that "last year, of 21 in my seminar, there were four boys. The year before, there were three.
"So not only do more women graduate," explained English professor David Milofsky, "but the best students tend to be women" as well.
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Now maybe this development is purely positive, with no discernible downside. That seems to be President Barack Obama's view. In an op-ed last month celebrating the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in education, the president wrote, "In fact, more women as a whole now graduate from college than men. This is a great accomplishment — not just for one sport or one college or even just for women but for America. And this is what Title IX is all about. ... We have come so far. But there's so much farther we can go. There are always more barriers we can break and more progress we can make."'
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