College is where one learns STEM jobs. You can’t fake engineering or surgery.
That is true. You cannot teach engineering, chemistry, metallurgy, or surgery on the fly to a walk-in.
I have two degrees, one I never used (Chemistry) and one I DID use, but do not any longer (Nuclear Medicine). My assessment of college, from when I was in it, was that it mostly taught me “how to think”, and less on “how to do”. I learned far more on the job than I did in college, but...I had to know the technical underpinnings to the work before I could begin to learn on the job.
So, yes. Unless men want to wholly surrender those STEM fields to females, men will need to attend college to learn the fundamentals that cannot be taught on the job, or even by a technical school.
As for women vs. men in college?
This nation has dedicated billions of dollars over the last 40 years trying to “overcome” the “sexist barriers” to women entering various STEM fields, but even with all that money spent, attention given, affirmative action applied, preferences and quotas disproportionally applied, psychic massaging, application of victimhood mentality, women STILL only make up 13% of the Electrical Engineers in the workforce.
It is one of three things-women aren’t smart enough to do it, women aren’t naturally inclined to do it, or women don’t want to do it.
My money is on “women aren’t naturally inclined to do it” due to a variety of reasons. And often the same reasons in reverse that men are not inclined to go into nursing.
To many, that makes me a “sexist”. So be it. Facts are facts.
It isn’t due to barriers intentionally put in place to keep men out of nursing, and yes, there are men who DO go into nursing, and are quite good. It is due to the fact that men are not inclined to go into nursing.
Tell that to the people at Boeing.
Engineering was sold out by Congress to Indians on work visas. If a US citizen male wants to remain unemployed, an STEM degree is the way to go.
For your next emergency room visit, I’d suggest you learn how to say heart attack in Hindi. Same problem as engineering.