WSJ article on men going to college less than women
- Currently women are almost 60% of college students
- Of college applicants this year, 3.8M were women, 2.8M were men
- UCLA has 59% female undergraduates
- Race tangent, poor/working class white men are less have worse enrollment rates than poor black/hispanic/asian men. (Comment: bucketing asians w/ black and hispanic may skew the data here)
Quote from Jennifer Delahunty, a college enrollment consultant:
“If you care about our society, one, and, two, if you care about women, you have to care about the boys, too. If you have equally educated numbers of men and women that just makes a better society, and it makes it better for women.”
Interesting to note interests of men is not listed as one of the reasons to encourage men to go to college. Reason #1 is to help society, reason #2 is to help women. 🤔
- Article rattles of standard laundry list of societal factors to blame: video games, absent fathers, porn, over diagnosis of ADHD
- They interview a guy who makes music on Spotify instead of going to college
- Another guy the interview complains the work is too hard at online college, and it's too expensive. He works at an Amazon warehouse
- Women make up 80% of honors graduates