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Once upon a time, it was a man's world. Men possessed most of the tools one needed for power and success: muscles, connections, control of the crucial social institutions. But then along came the information age to change all that. In the information age, education is the gateway to success. And that means this is turning into a woman's world because women are better students than men. From the first days of school, girls outperform boys. The gap is sometimes small, but over time, slight advantages grow larger. In surveys, kindergarten teachers report that girls are more attentive than boys...

<p>In May, the Minnesota Office of Higher Education posted the inevitable culmination of a trend: Last year for the first time, women earned more than half the degrees granted statewide in every category, be it associate, bachelor, master, doctoral or professional.</p> <p>Cause for celebration - or for concern?</p>

NEW YORK, JULY 9, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Boys and girls have marked physical and psychological differences and hence they have to be educated differently. This is the thesis of a book published earlier this year by psychologist and family doctor Leonard Sax. In "Why Gender Matters" (Random House), he takes issue with the modern tendency toward gender-neutral child-rearing. According to this theory boys and girls behave differently because of the way they are educated, or because of cultural factors. Sax describes how in the mid-1990s he began to see more and more young boys arrive at his office with requests for...

Some researchers call them the "Lost Boys." They are young males students you don't see on college campuses. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) tracks the enrollment in all degree-granting institutions by sex. From 1992 to 2000, the ratio of enrolled males to females fell from 82 to 78 boys for every 100 girls. The NCES projects that in 2007 the ratio will be 75 males for every 100 females; in 2012, 74 per 100. In short, your son is statistically more likely than your daughter to work a blue collar job. Thomas Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell...

Friday, May 27, 2005 The secret lives of Christian school boysPosted: May 27, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern By Kevin McCullough © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com A new study has found that boys who attend Christian schools view sex before marriage as morally wrong, that pornography is too widely available, and that abortion is nearly always wrong. What? How can this be? Aren't all Christian students, particularly hormone-driven young men, hypocrites? Even if they have been told by clergy that it's wrong to do, won't they just give in to their lesser selves and shag anyway? The study, produced by Professor Leslie J. Francis from...

<p>WHAT WILL HE LIKE? Will Scudder reads in his school library at the all-boys Haverford School. Some teachers say it takes effort to connect boys and books.</p> <p>If you want to get boys to read, assign F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." So say students at the all-boys Haverford School in suburban Philadelphia.</p>

This piece admirably discusses the fact that women now outnumber men in obtaining bachelor degrees (although men have a major upperhand in mathematics and hard-sciences). So when asked whether universities should consider "affirmative action" for male applicants, a university spokesman said: "Women have worked so hard to get to this point...I think universities will have hard time supplanting well-qualified women to give a place to less-qualified, less-motivated male applicants."What??? When it comes to male affirmative action, a Liberal suddenly equates "Affirmative Action" with QUOTAS!!! This is why it is a waste of time talking to DU-types. When the circumstances change...

Girls are taking the nation's colleges by storm. They're streaming to campuses in greater numbers, earning better grades and graduating more often. The same phenomenal success shows in high schools, where girls dominate honor rolls, hold more student government spots and rake in most of the academic awards.

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) - Claiming they were deceived about attending a women's school, two Wells College students are suing to prevent the school from admitting men until after this year's freshman class graduates. The suit was filed on behalf of freshman Lauren Searle-Lebel of Arcata, Calif., and sophomore Jennifer LaBarbera of Fredonia. The students seek preliminary and permanent injunctions to stop the school, founded in 1868 as a woman's liberal arts college, from admitting men before fall 2008. The suit also seeks undetermined punitive damages and "any other such further relief as the court deems just and proper." ........... The...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — When admissions officers for Santa Clara University recruit new freshmen, they do their best to reach the kind of students they'd like to see more of on the Silicon Valley campus: boys. "We make a special pitch to them to talk about the benefits of Santa Clara, as we do for other underrepresented groups," Charles Nolan, Santa Clara's vice provost for admissions, said of the school's efforts to boost male appli

<p>The women's movement has taught us many things, one of the more surprising being that boys are not performing in school as well as they might.</p> <p>Three decades ago reformers' attention was focused on the "higher-education gap"—the fact that not as many girls went on to college, graduate school, and professional school as boys. Advocates of equality between the sexes fought hard to create gender-specific education programs, fair admissions policies, and professional societies for women. Their efforts were rewarded: from 1970 to 2000 the number of women attending college rose by 136 percent, graduate school by 168 percent, and professional school by 853 percent.</p>

BOSTON - For the first time ever, women outnumbered men among applicants this fall to the nation's medical schools — a milestone in the slow but steady increase in the number of aspiring female doctors. Nearly 35,000 men and women applied for the 2003-04 school year, a 3.4 percent increase over last year and the first increase since 1996. More than 17,600 of the applicants — or 50.8 percent — were women, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Women have yet to surpass the number of men actually entering medical school. Nationwide this fall, women were closer than...

Dearth of Men Felt at Colleges Across the Country Gender Gap Particularly Apparent Among Minority Groups at UC Berkeley Berkeley High School senior Chris Carlisle isn’t planning to apply to UC Berkeley this year. In fact, he’s not sending any applications to college. “I want to be a firefighter,” Carlisle says. “I just ain’t thought about college.” Carlisle’s decision reflects a growing national trend—fewer men are choosing to go to college, and now make up just under 44 percent of students enrolled in degree-granting institutions across the country. With this phenomenon, UC Berkeley’s gender gap has reversed. At 54...