Selective Concern On Sex Imbalances
Women now claim more than 57 percent of all bachelor’s degrees, 61 percent of all master’s degrees, and half of all professional and doctoral degrees, according to Education Department data cited by University of Michigan economist Mark Perry and others. They also earn more Ph.D.s than men in the humanities, education, health sciences, and social sciences, including two-thirds of new psychology doctorates.
Such data might find a principled administration and academic establishment busy documenting and attacking discrimination against or cultural hostility toward underrepresented males.
After all, it is an article of faith in the Obama administration, Congress, and much of the academic establishment that there are no innate differences between females and males in interests or cognitive capacities. From this dubious premise, they conclude that only pervasive, ongoing sexism and stereotypes can explain the huge gender disparities in academic fields — hard sciences, engineering, and mathematics — that are still male-dominated.
Full article at the National Journal here.
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