Women Are Leaving Men In The Dust

By Tamar Lewin - July 9th, 2006 - The New York Times

The New Gender Divide
At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust

A quarter-century after women became the majority on college campuses, men are trailing them in more than just enrollment.

Department of Education statistics show that men, whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to get bachelor's degrees — and among those who do, fewer complete their degrees in four or five years. Men also get worse grades than women.

And in two national studies, college men reported that they studied less and socialized more than their female classmates.

Small wonder, then, that at elite institutions like Harvard, small liberal arts colleges like Dickinson, huge public universities like the University of Wisconsin and U.C.L.A. and smaller ones like Florida Atlantic University, women are walking off with a disproportionate share of the honors degrees.

After nearly 40 years of male hatred by feminists the modern world has reached the point where men are the only acceptable target for discrimination. Jokes that would be basis for lawsuits directed against any of the protected "minorities" are tolerated against men. This double standard has consequences and it is changing the behavior of men. It is important to ask whether this change is positive.

I find the attitude of many young men of all races is growing indifference to what society thinks of them. They believe that no matter how they try, they will be discriminated against and so they become less concerend with the opinion of society. This attitude has long term consequences that are not good for our society.