This Couldn’t Be Good
Black women are nearly twice as likely to earn a college degree as black men. At some historically black colleges, the gap is astounding: Fisk is now 64 percent female; Howard, 67 percent; Clark Atlanta, 75 percent…[In] Boston public schools…for the graduating class of 2007, there were 191 black girls for every 100 boys going on to attend a four-year college or university. Among Hispanics, the ratio was 175 girls for every 100 boys; among whites, 153 for every 100.
Full article on the gender gap in education.
This is horrible! Society cannot long survive this inequity. We should do something! We need a quota system that provides preferential admissions to males, and awards college scholarships to non-meritorious men in order to close this college gender gap!
Schooling and college degrees outside of engineering, sciences, and accountancy are worthless except as signaling devices. Most women do not earn degrees in those fields, opting for liberal arts, humanities, communications, education, and “studies” programs . Those types of degrees have less and less value as a predictor of lifetime earnings. I don’t see a problem with fewer men earning degrees in liberal arts, humanities, communications, education, and “studies” programs, that will do them basically no good. They will instead go into trades, making useful things or start businesses, providing useful things or services.
This isn’t just us. Arab societies have around 70% female in school as well.
Girls are certainly less suceptable to joining gangs which is what a high number of young black and hispanic boys do in low socioeconomic areas. This is a stat I’d love to see changed.
Could this be because boys develop differently than girls do, by this, I mean girls cognitively mature earlier than boys. This could influence the result, even though it is subtle point. Plus, this might point to the need for different schooling to cater to these gender differences.
We have seen this coming for a while now. When I think of school I usually think of girls more than boys, since they always tend to be the ones better at it, more responsible, able to get good grades, and show more motivation to succeed more than guys do. That’s just the truth. Between both groups, guys have always been seen as the ones that care less for school and college, and more for having fun or perhaps starting their own business without a college degree. Girls not so much. Is this necessarily bad?
Dudly Do-Right, I sincerely hope that is sarcasm.
The core issue here is the way primary and secondary educators reward educational attainment via book-learning only. According to the CDC, “Boys (13.2%) were more likely than girls (5.6%) to have ever been diagnosed with ADHD.” This stems from behaviour differences rather than chemical imbalances or maladies. We need teachers and parents who realise that childhood is not a “disease” to be medicated and cured. According to a recent study by the American Psychological Society on gender differences in learning styles, “54.2% of females and only 12.5% of males preferred a single mode of information presentation.” In order to close this gender gap in education, teachers have to present information in more than one way – a radically different approach from the lecture-activity-homework cookie cutter method currently employed at the common public school.
Links:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html
http://advan.physiology.org/content/31/2/153.full
I saw this news clip by ABC news that looked into how young black professional women are having a hard time finding mates of equal qualifications. It was an interesting look into how this is shaping their dating pool.