Posted on 08/03/2023 8:56:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Department of Education has released statistics on females versus males earning college degrees. By 2027, it is projected that 60 percent of college degrees will go to females and less than 40 percent will go to males. This represents a total reversal from 1968, when males earned roughly 60 percent of college degrees and females earned roughly 40 percent.
Despite the fact that women are soon expected to earn 60% of all college degrees, American universities and colleges continue to offer about 10 times more female-only scholarships than male-only scholarships. (See next tweet.)
pic.twitter.com/AxYNlWQyZp— i/o (@monitoringbias) August 2, 2023
Why is that a problem? To be clear, it isn’t a problem that 60 percent of college degrees are earned by females. And it isn’t necessarily a problem that 40 percent of college degrees are earned by males. For a lot of males, the idea of going to college is neither desirable nor, in certain cases, a necessity. Indeed, many believe it has been a mistake by our education establishment to force our high schools in the United States to do away with vocational training programs and replace them with a college or university preparatory curriculum. Especially in light of the many high school-aged males who do not desire to attend a four-year college or university.
Nevertheless, the emphasis has definitely been placed on the importance of college to the exclusion of other more traditional educational, including vocational options. But that isn’t really the point of this article. Instead, I wish to examine the current status of males in America overall. How are males doing? Are males doing well? Or is there a problem? I will submit there is a problem based on the available data.
We know what is happening at the college level with respect to the genders, but let’s take a closer look by examining U.S. crime statistics:
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, in 2019, males accounted for approximately 71.4 percent of individuals arrested for index crimes in the United States. It is important to note that this statistic includes both violent and property crimes, which encompasses a wide range of offenses.
Here are some examples of serious crimes committed by males in 2019 according to the FBI UCR Program, “Crime in the United States, 2019” (Table 43):
Moreover, sadly, but expectedly, according to the latest data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, as of September 2021, approximately 93.6 percent of the individuals in the federal prison system in the United States are male.
Mental Health Concerns: According to the National Institute of Mental Health, males face higher suicide rates compared to women. In 2019, the suicide rate for males was approximately three times higher than that of females.
Workplace Fatalities: Per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the majority of workplace fatalities occur among men. In 2019, men accounted for about 93 percent of job-related deaths in the United States.
Higher Rates of Substance Abuse: A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows men tend to have higher rates of substance abuse and addiction. In 2019, approximately 66 percent of drug overdose deaths involved males.
Lower Life Expectancy: According to the CDC, men have a lower life expectancy compared to women. In 2018, the life expectancy for men in the United States was 76 years, while for women, it was 81 years.
The list goes on, including limited Access to Mental Health Services. According to a study by the National Institute of Mental Health, men were only half as likely as women to have received mental health treatment in the past year and had limited access to appropriate care.
We also hear a lot about the so-called gender earnings gap. The National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) highlights the gender earnings gap through “Equal Pay Day,” which fell on March 14 this year. The NCPE claims that women will have to work until 2023 to earn the same income as men did in 2022, despite having the same job, hours, education, and work experience. This emphasizes the significant difference in unadjusted median annual earnings between genders.
Dr. Mark Perry, an American Enterprise Scholar (emeritus), blogger, and recovering musician (my favorite title), for the past several years, has been answering “Equal Pay Day” with what he calls “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” to highlight the gender disparity in work-related deaths in the United States.
For example, Dr. Perry shows that in 2021, 91.4 percent of workplace fatalities were men, while only 8.6 percent were women. Perry argues that this significant gap in occupational fatalities contributes to the gender earnings gap, as men tend to work in higher-risk, higher-paid occupations. He also provides examples of these occupations, such as iron and steelworkers, roofers, construction trades, and logging workers, where men make up the majority of the workforce.
On the other hand, women are more likely to work in lower-risk industries, such as office and administrative support, education, and healthcare, where they outnumber men. Dr. Perry points out that the next “Equal Occupational Fatality Day” will occur in 2032, symbolizing how much longer women can work in relative safety before experiencing the same number of occupational fatalities as men.
Sometimes when it comes to our politicians, the disparity between the status of males and females can seem like a zero-sum game, especially when it comes to our focus on females. There is no National Commission on the “Status” of Men, whereas there is very much a focus and emphasis on the status of women, and as the data clearly shows, females in America today are doing pretty well.
We want a society where both males and females are doing well because when males in our society do well, females do well too, and vice versa. And yet, as a matter of public policy, the concern is almost entirely on females to the near total exclusion of males. By examining both genders, we can ensure that our efforts towards things like equality are inclusive and comprehensive.
The bottom line is that focusing solely on the “status” of one gender can perpetuate inequalities and fail to address the unique challenges faced by both genders.
It’s alarming and will destabilize society as women like to “marry up.” Too few college educated men to go around will mean those that do will have their pick. (Good for my 3 college educated boys). Soon 90% of doctors and lawyers and other professionals will be women. Is this really what we want? I’m a woman and I say…no. It’s time for conservatives to “take back college” or at least ignore the propaganda and pursue STEM degrees.
My question is females earn more degrees, but in what disciplines?
Andrew tate is a Muslim scunbag
Most college degrees have become nearly worthless and nit worth the time nor money. They can do better by learning a solid trade, than becoming tens of thousands of dollars in debt, only to find that they are working in Starbucks for minimum wage.
“To be clear, it isn’t a problem that 60 percent of college degrees are earned by females.”
Maybe not for the females, but it sure is for fertility rates.
Part of reason why boys are turning conservative.
Females being brainwashed and indoctrinated more than males. What is new?
Anyone paying for a degree to make you dumber is irrelevant.
Key issue here is what are the degree breakdowns. There’s so many totally useless degrees nowadays they’re absolutely meaningless.
Why would a white male attend college and pays thousands of dollars in tuition,room and board, books, and fees and give up earning money only to be told that he is a racist, sexist,rapist, and in general responsible for all the ills of the world since the beginning of time?
Worthless college degrees for women will also ensure that Deep State can continue to use the wage gap BS.
Ladies, if you want to ensure that you can support yourselves and your families, learn a trade.
Those worthless degrees are not worthless to Deep State.
And therein lies the problem.
Well, males are dominating female college sports so they’ve got that going for them...
Really? Would we be in a better place if women were equal transgressors?
More men do commit crimes. Part of that is to do with the fact that men are more aggressive than women. It has nothing to do with not going to college. It has everything to do with young boys not learning to control themselves. Blame that on not having fathers, being in day care and a host of other things that don’t allow some boys to not get along with others. It’s an early childhood development problem that boils down to a percentage of boys that are rejected by their peers because they don’t control their aggression and play well with others.
Women will never be equal transgressors. They simply are different than men. Women will never be equal to men in the workplace and in most cases when they have so-called equal jobs they are not happy in those jobs. Their make up and psychological temperament are not the same as men, but feminists and government schools push them in directions that if left to their natural interests they would not do. I bet that shows up in the college stats to a certain degree. Jordon Peterson talks about these things a lot and there are some real, non-woke research on these exact problems.
Women, on the other hand, have the luxury of going to "college" to major in "Women's History" or "Gender Equality" or "Education Theory" or "African American Sociological Impediments To Constructive Progress." Etc. Women have that luxury because their husbands are working gainful employment and supporting their wives who are playing in college.
And when they're not playing in college, they're in the student center watching Oprah the Whale.
The statistics on crime by men is meaningless unless broken down by race.
There are large differences between the races, but within the races the male/female ratio is fairly constant.
E.g., men of any race are about 8 times more likely to commit murder than are women of the same race.
If there is a crisis at all, it is that too many men still can't turn a screwdriver while getting mostly worthless college degrees that condemn them to working at Starbucks mixing frothy drinks for overpriveleged college girls.
That said, not ALL college degrees are worthless. Mechanical engineering for example. But there are far too many kids going to college and not enough getting into the trades.
“examples of serious crimes committed by males in 2019 “
Break it down by race and what do we see?
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