Will 2019 be the year that colleges and universities stop openly discriminating against men, 47 years after Title IX?
Article here. Excerpt:
'And yet despite the significant and impressive gains women have achieved academically in higher education since Title IX, and despite the significant and growing under-representation of men as the minority gender in higher education, it’s almost as if we haven’t yet advanced in our thinking from the 1970s when Title IX was passed. That landmark civil rights legislation guarantees that all genders, but especially women as an under-represented minority at that time, were treated equally in higher education in an environment free from any gender discrimination or gender favoritism.
But now that women (men) are the over-represented (under-represented) gender, and have been for more than a generation, higher education is still acting as if women still need attention, resources, scholarships, funding, fellowships, initiatives, clubs, camps, commissions, study spaces, conferences, and awards that aren’t available to men, with no concern at all about the under-represented minority. And that ongoing gender favoritism and special treatment for women in higher education, which comes at the expense of the under-represented gender minority, is now being increasingly challenged legally for violating Title IX’s prohibition of sex discrimination (including sex discrimination against men).'
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