Higher education has been headed in this direction for some time now, yet women are still treated like a minority.
The College Fix reports:
Women now surpass men in law, medical school enrollmentThere are now more women in professional degree programs than men, including medical, law, and veterinary schools. That’s according to recent research by the Hechinger Report. The shift has some men’s advocates concerned, with one telling The College Fix he wants to see “gender balance … where neither gender struggles and both excel.” Others view the trend more neutrally. A veterinarian told The Fix it can’t be characterized as “morally good or morally bad.”As most graduate school applications now come from women, women are earning 40 percent more doctorates and almost twice as many masters degrees compared to men, the Hechinger Report found, citing U.S. Department of Education statistics.The trend with professional degrees began about five years ago when women began earning more law degrees or enrolling in medical school at a higher rate than men in 2019, the report found.Additionally, 60 percent of U.S. undergraduates are now women. Meanwhile, the number of men in college has dropped by 4 percent since 2020, according to the report.While health, biological, social, behavioral, and agricultural sciences are mostly studied by women, men still make up the majority in business, math, engineering, and physical science graduate programs, the report found.The report did not mention seminary, one of the three traditional professions. Enrollment trends broken down by sex are more difficult to find, but an Alabama Baptist report noted the number of women in seminary was on the rise in the 2010s.In a recent interview, G. Lawrence DeMarco, executive manager of the International Council for Men and Boys, expressed concerns about schools not addressing boys’ academic needs when asked about the trend.He pointed The College Fix to an article about how boys nowadays are struggling academically more often than girls.Regarding whether the gender ratio reversal is a good thing, DeMarco said, “I suppose, as a general matter, that it wouldn’t be a good thing for either men or women to vastly outnumber the other. Women excelling is a very good thing. Men struggling is not.”
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