I’m sure the article could have been written the exact opposite way. Women dominate X field and Y field. Men are losing ground.
Of course that must be okay, since you never hear of such things! But since more women graduate college now, and men do dominate certain professions, it only stands to reason that there are female dominated professions. Women are spoiled in this country. It would be nice to see somebody say it. Women can do what they want to do. They can work and be at par with men. Or they can stay home and raise a family. All the while the popular culture reinforces how special women are. Is it asking too much for society to acknowledge how lucky the modern woman is?
Actually, my younger brother is getting a free ride to nursing school. They’ve got a huge shortage of men there. The way they’re tossing money at him reminds me of my experience in computer science.
But other fields, nope, there’s no extra incentives to see equal representation for guys.
In grad school I got an extra fellowship. All us American girls got the same one. And my African-American female friend got one that was twice as big. We made lots of jokes about it... but you know, it enabled us to live in safer apartment buildings than where our male classmates were living and it might just have made the difference to some of us in whether or not to go.