Reply to The boys just aren't going to college

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "The boys just aren't going to college"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are Asian and I have a son with ADHD and a daughter without. I completely reject any notion that boys have it harder overall in their lives. Yes, my son has it terribly hard at school, and yes, it's harder for him to apply to college, because of his race and because of his grades impacted by his ADHD. But male privilege is such that he will be "saved" in his career by being male and given the benefit of the doubt, whereas my daughter, despite great intelligence and functional skills, will always need to prove herself at every rung of the ladder.

So take this recent data in perspective.

[/quote]

See,  that's how we got here, and seems it will get much worse (with the above thinking currently prevalent).   What the heck's male privilege anyway? Anecdotally at my fortune 500 workplace the majority of senior execs are female and have been so over the last decade. At my top 20 college the STEM program I graduated from is now 'intentionally' held at 50/50 percentage breakdown between men & women with some years favoring more women than men. I've seen the HS credentials of lots of the women being admitted and you can tell they've been systematically exposed to more STEM programs (girls who code, kode with klossy, numerous university sponsored 'women in engineering' programs) burnishing their resumes than the men. Also many more 'math support' groups for young women both in HS and within the colleges. Those programs specifically exclude male students and this is fueling my alma mater's engineering school (and likely other schools as well) now having to artificially maintain a semblance of gender balance by 'putting a thumb on the scale' to ensure men get to attend.  View from the STEM perspective. [/quote]

[b]I have worked in IT for 25 years and your experience is not at all typical. Or at least it's not driving the workforce. More than 80 percent of the resumes I get for junior developers and other entry level positions are from men. For senior positions it's closer to 98 percent male.[/b][/quote]

I came here to write the exact same thing but PP beat me to it.  The overwhelming majority of people I work with in hands-on, hard core tech projects are men. I've can't recall working with more than a handful female developers other than those I hired.  Sure, there are women doing front end UX stuff and project management, but the people grinding out code are mostly male in my experience.   Of course there ARE female developers working at top companies, but in the markets I work in (government and non-silicon valley business), it's mostly men.

[/quote]

Agree, I'm getting a masters in an IT field and my program is 30% women. The pure computer science program is 20% women. Even I might end up in project management because I like human interaction. Besides Biology/Healthcare, STEM is still majority male.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics