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Many,many moons ago I read a small article -- the who, when, where,etc. I don't recall-- but "the message" of that article has struck in my mind like gum on the bottom of your shoe.

In a nutshell: When men* begin leaving some thing (a certain career, profession,college degrees) it is almost always b/c that "thing" is no longer worth the time and trouble it takes.

Maybe it's a genetic thing, that men instinctively tend towards job skills, etc. that has the better chance of supporting a family. In this case a college degree is a perfect example: the fact that fewer and fewer men are getting them should be looked upon as a "mystery" or "tragedy" or some other psycho-babble, but as grim testimony to the increasing worthlessness, the "chic-a-facation" of college degrees. **

Look at those professions once dominated by men that are now seeing experiencing an ever growing number of female practitioners***. It's almost a sure bet its no longer the money making career it once had been. ======================================

* Good grief, of course not all men and not every degree.
** I'm a femme so it's okay for me to say that.
*** And, for heaven sakes!, this is not saying in any way, shape, or form, that female practitioners aren't just as professional as men; merely that the initial, original economic incentive of times gone by is almost certainly no longer there.

Good post yankeedame - most of the successful men that I know are employed in skilled trades. If you can believe it - many of us are tending towards pretty staunch Conservatism - it's a newer trend up here in Liberal Canada among men in their 30s. Partly because none of us could be bothered with a University education, partly because we are surrounded by Liberal lunatics and don't like what we see.

It's a trend that is in its infancy up here in Canada, and you wouldn't otherwise have thought, given our country's pathetic slide into leftism, but as it stands, I believe the backlash is starting, especially amongst Canadian men. None of us wants to go to Uni and learn feminist studies and other such wastes of time.

I'm also noticing a trend beginning in some women - I actually met a woman a while back who describes herself as Libertarian - a small step, but encouraging nonetheless, most Canadian women can only be described as radical feminists/borderline lesbian.