+1 My daughter attends a school that has slightly more men than women. She feels it's far better balanced than other schools where the vast majority of students are female. |
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She simply had no desire to go to an all-women's school or a school with a huge majority of women. |
Colleges are F:M 60:40, why do you assume things will change dramatically after college? Given how males and females choose their partners, it will be difficult for educated females and less educated males, it’s a numbers game. Or the norms will have to change for example women will have to be happy with a spouse that is less educated or earns less money, or share a partner with another woman. |
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I'm a male student at a 55/45 school. I wish I was experiencing what these guys were 😢
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DP. Not all schools are heavily female. Most SLACS and smaller schools are, but not many larger universities. Better balance there. |
It’s 58:42 for college enrollment and if you account for the graduation rates it’s 60:40 for bachelor degrees on average over the entire population, not just SLACS. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2024/08/07/women-continue-to-outpace-men-in-college-enrollment-and-graduation/ A college graduate female looking for a partner with similar background is facing stiff competition, both in college and after graduation. You just can’t match 9 million females with 6 million males. The future of marriage, relationships and family will be very different for the next generations. |
Not having a bachelor's degree doesn't automatically take someone out of the marriage market. People aren't that shallow. |
| DD is a lesbian. Love her 70F/30M LAC and dated extensively before settling with current classmate girlfriend |
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it's important for DS to have enough guys at the school for him to make male friends too, he's not just focused on a girlfriend or hook-ups.
I think a 55-45 or 50-50 school would be ideal, but those are few to come by in LACs tend to skew female. |
It actually does for many women, although income can mitigate that. That’s why the marriage rates among the low income, no BA women are the lowest they’ve been. It’s easy to find statistics showing that between being single and marrying someone without the desired combination of education and income, women prefer the former, ie rather be single than date a loser. It’s not about being shallow it’s about the resources needed to start a family. Not saying it’s a good thing or universally true, but that’s how things skew. |
Never heard dudes complaining there’s not enough guys in college to make friends. It’s more of a mom concern. |
| JMU is 58%-42% female to male, but my son's major (accounting) is 2:3 ratio of girls to boys (I assume that's just 3rd and 4th year students). He is really happy socially and academically. |
| My husband went to a school that was 2/3 female, and he said that a lot of the men there developed inflated views of their own desirability/worth, and treated women pretty poorly, simply because they could. |
You are assuming all of these graduates will remain in the U.S. That won't be a given for future generations considering that the U.S. will be losing its superiority in research and high tech industry. They will have to travel |