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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, show me the evidence of where men are having trouble gaining admission to college. Does it actually exist? Is there evidence that men are applying to college and being shut out and therefore being excluded from getting college degrees?

Or are we talking about an increasing trend of men opting out of college for a variety of reasons, and men dropping out at higher rates than women.

If this is a choice men are making then you can't blame the education system or how SATs are scored or programs that are designed to recruit women into STEM. Unless you can actually show evidence that men are being shut out of college, this is about male preference, not discrimination.[/quote]

Education is a funnel.

And over the past decade or two, the funnel has been designed to funnel away boys, starting in kindergarten.

[b]Try to find a stem enrichment opportunity explicitly for young men.[/b] You can't.  There are zero.

Then look for one for young women.  There are dozens upon dozens.

That is just one example among many.[/quote]

You mean white/Asian men.

This is actually true.  I would also be shocked if any school would encourage a group like "Men who Write" or other such groups that would reflect an imbalance of men pursuing the humanities compared to women.

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At my kids’ school, the stem activities open to all (Science Olympiad, Math team, etc) are pretty much full of Asian boys. [/quote]

Again, these are not the boys who will not go to college. STEM is not the problem.[/quote]

I think you are missing something. The combination of outreach and lower standards for certain demographics to enter STEM has come at the price of fewer seats for the traditionally strongest demographics for those areas, with no corresponding offsetting outreach for the latter demographics to go into areas they typically found less interesting.

But I don’t think white or Asian males are in general wanting outreach to them for placement into arts and humanities nearly as much as they want a level playing field for entry to STEM.

All that said, I think the bigger effect has been that as college became less affordable, parents became less inclined to push daughters straight into the workforce from high school than sons.

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