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    RiloKilo: Why are young male applicants rarer? Are there just less men... in the world? Applying to college? What? #genderincollegeadmissions more »
    Ginmar Rienne: How come this kind of thing didn't bother people when it was men outnumbering women? Where were they then? #genderincollegeadmissions more »
    mizz2bee: Although my son grew up in Berkeley competing with both genders for high academics, at his high school in Indiana, he is one of two males on the A Hon... more »
    Lizabelle: I'm just going to come out and say it, and I know a lot of you won't like it, but here it is: My brother is smarter than me. Always has been, always ... more »
    Atomic Bowling: Like it or not, it's still the case that in the working world women do not achieve the same salary or status as their male counterparts with the same ... more »
    thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: I wonder how many of the people concerned about the gender imbalance in education care that young men of color are disproprotionately affected? Is th... more »
    frozengrapes: I don't really see the difference between this and affirmative action. I support affirmative action because it promotes a diversity of voices and back... more »
    Jetgirly: I'm a special education teacher. I teach in a program for ninth-graders who can't read and write (or are at least five grade levels below expectations... more »
    hilkaryic: Does it matter if the entire school is 50/50, 60/40, or 75/25, when the students in the majors are completely tilted one way? I found that politics a... more »
    desertbloom79: So a female works her ass off, and studies much harder than her brother, because she knows that later, in the workforce after college, she will have t... more »
    Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!: But how will all these women find their husbands on campus (which is, I assume, what they're there to do)?! #genderincollegeadmissions more »
    mikskeezy: This reminds me of something that happened at my alma matter a few weeks ago. Apparently we're getting to have too many women on campus, so our (femal... more »
    InABook: We can stop thinking about college as a time and place of sexual awakening all we want, but unless extremly restrictive policies exist, it will contin... more »
    DannyOcean: Reading the comments for this article, there's unsurprisingly a large amount of strained and faulty logic used to justify positions on both sides of t... more »
    jennyOH: I heard this story on the way to work and am really glad you covered it. I would have been interested to see (and hope there may be some discussion o... more »
  • #genderstudies

    Are Colleges Discriminating Against Women?

    NPR reports that the US Commission on Civil Rights is investigating whether colleges are violating Title IX by favoring male applicants. But is such favoritism necessary to keep colleges from becoming "overwhelmingly female?" More »
  • #college

    NYT Writer Finds Out Jerks Still Exist In Academia