Gender Diversity
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Anonymous
| On another thread people were openly talking about colleges wanting to be 50/50 on gender diversity so qhy is everyone okay with colleges pursuing gender diversity and not racial diversity? |
Anonymous
| Hormones, colleges want a happy student body. |
Anonymous
Because one is easier to define and implement. Men/Women in the population 50/50, aim for the same mix everywhere, easy-peasy. With Race, it becomes a Whites vs. Others thing while also excluding certain non-Whites from the Others bucket (e.g. Asians) and a whole bunch of other factors also come into play - basis for such favoritism, who was wronged more, lack of focus on merit, etc. Much harder. |
Anonymous
| But so many are 60/40 women right now |
Anonymous
| Colleges do not pursue gender diversity. At least the ones larger than 1,000 student enrollments. Men are still discriminated against in STEM fields. Sorry, but not sorry it is true. |
Anonymous
+1 Both my kids (a boy and a girl) went out of their way to find schools that were at least 50/50, if not skewed higher toward males. |
Anonymous
I was one if those posters and think both are good. |
Anonymous
Some do. My kid is at a T20 that has far more female applicants but kerps accepted students to 50/50. |
Anonymous
Discriminated against in STEM fields, but do receive some bonuses to admission elsewhere. Even decades ago, it was an open secret that e.g. boys had an easier time getting into William & Mary and other liberal-arts heavy colleges. Colleges really want to keep the numbers close. What I don't know is if the obvious next step has been taken, and men are quietly receiving price breaks on attendance. I think no, but I don't have the contacts I used to have in that world. |
Anonymous
What about all the other genders? |
Anonymous
How can it be top 20 if they are taking inferior candidates? |
Anonymous
Women are driving out. They outnumber men applying by a large margin. It has been shown when a university tips above 60-40 female:male ratio---application numbers/yield go down. Women want men to date on campus. |
Anonymous
| ^driving it |
Anonymous
| At the top 10 colleges, it does not matter. You have genders in pretty much equal numbers applying. At places like CalTech,MIT, slightly more males. |
Anonymous
That is the minimum level of gender disparity that colleges think they can get away with. |