Posted on 04/01/2024 1:01:07 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Men are turning away from college and the shift could have profound implications for the economy, their health and the American family.
Today, only 39% of young men who have completed high school are enrolled in college, down from 47% in 2011, according to a recent analysis by Pew Research. That works out to about 1 million fewer young men in college compared to just over a decade ago.
The trend isn’t new but as scholars like Richard Reeves have pointed out, the gradual retreat from higher education signals a larger crisis facing boys and men.
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That may be true, I never considered it that way. But even if they named it something else, I still think most guys wouldn’t go into it at any greater rate.
I have worked in the industry for decades, and while it is 100% not true that all males who work in nursing are homosexual (because I have known many stellar nurses who were men) there has always been an undercurrent of that opinion...which I have always viewed as unfair.
But hey-guys pick up on that. And no guy wants to be seen drinking Bud Light!
You write well. Such skill was obvious in Freeper kristinn (Kristinn Taylor), here, years ago. You can now find several of his articles online.
For your next emergency room visit, I’d suggest you learn how to say heart attack in Hindi. Same problem as engineering.
I will always be in debt to kristinn...he was the one who got me involved with FR by inviting me down to the DC Chapter Freeps in Washington!
Thank you, Kristinn!!!
Agreed
“’Single and divorced men are at higher risk of dying from opioids. Married men also live longer and die by suicide at lower rates.’
I find this hard to believe.....”
Eventually, merit wins out. Either that or oblivion.
BECAUSE IT IS WORTH IT.
Without people working in trade, we’d all be in deep ****. Be grateful for those plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, construction workers, etc. We’d have it a lot rougher without them, and they’re as important to the economy as any office worker.
I'm right there with ya! My husband grew up on a farm and his dad taught him how to do all those things as well as auto mechanics. He could take care of all those things and rarely needed to call someone.
Now he's gone and I have to make those calls. I'm able to do a few things but not nearly enough.
There's a need for the college-educated and there's a need for the trades.
“Otherwise, congratulations to the union that got you an $80 per hour job.”
Non-union.
Salaried position.
47 years in one profession.
tough life....
Just one?
Not really
Not much impact
Why?
Whatever women do whatever field they go into in large percentages, gets downgraded
Whatever fields men have and take over increases in prestige
examples? downgraded by large percentage of women
family practice medicine
Law
human resourses
counseling and social work
Increased prestige by men being dominant percentage, often by far
Merchant mariners
Skilled trades
Engineering
Rocket science
Electrical and applied computing IE Tower programming etc
“Unless men want to wholly surrender those STEM fields to females...”
The statistics I just looked up have around 70% of STEM grads being male. Lots of women on colleges but they aren’t all that interested in working hard.
I studied biology in college. You couldn’t have paid me to study anything outside of STEM (although it wasn’t called that in the 70s). I CLEP’d my general ed requirements do I finished in 3 years.
I wonder if there is another factor at play. (FYI-this is all my opinion, I didn’t read it anywhere I can remember, but it is something I have noticed in my thankfully long life...I didn’t get this out of a book!)
Embedded in the normal male psyche is the reluctance to inflict violence or directly compete with females.
Somewhere inside of men, there is an an element that does not want direct completion or conflict with females, because...we want to get closer to them, rather than drive them away. (or at least that is how it used to be)
I wonder if men are just checking out against direct conflict with females, and if that has anything to do with it.
Just speculating.
Correct. My local community College is expanding their trades program. As a matter of fact, they've just completed the construction for a new trades building. So I guess the demand is there.
12 years of attempted brainwashing. A lot of them grew up with neurotic mothers. I guess they're not interested in the crap that college has to offer them.
They have access to social media so they know what's going on. And they're not buying the woke crap.
Interesting thought. It sounds plausible at least!
There’s a community college nearby but I don’t know what they offer in the way of a trades program. I imagine they have something.
There’s a Vo-Tech school about 25 miles from here but demand was high enough, a new one was built here a couple of years ago.
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