It's academic: university women are beating men at almost everything
There are more of them studying, they are less likely to drop out, and they will probably end up with a better degree – but less money
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Women outnumber men at every university bar Oxbridge and are more likely to get a good degree, but are drawn to the less well paid professions
Women outperform men in almost every single aspect of higher education, according to research published today.
The number of women at university began to exceed the number of men for the first time 16 years ago.
However, for years there were still academics claiming that men had "more where it mattered", ie at elite Russell Group universities – the group which represents 20 of the UK's leading research institutions including Oxford and Cambridge.
One study published in 2005, Class Rifts Eclipsed by Sex Divide, said: "Many women are studying in lower-status universities... the university continues to be a space where class privilege is maintained and women's participation is limited to the bottom of a hierarchical continuum."
Now a new study by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), the independent university think-tank, debunks that finding as a myth.
It finds that not only do women outnumber men overall at university, they also outnumber them at every type of university. They are also more likely to get a good degree pass (a 2:1 or a first) and are less likely to drop out.
For good measure, the Government's attempts to widen university participation among disadvantaged groups also appear to have struck more of a chord with women than men. There are more girls who were entitled to free meals at school going on to higher education than boys.
In virtually every ethnic group, too, including Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities, where religion or culture may have led to some families downplaying the importance of education to women, more women than men go to university.
Figures cited by HEPI show 49.2 per cent of women now opt for higher education – compared with only 37.2 per cent of men.
Women are further ahead in representation at post-1992 universities (the former polytechnics) – 23.8 per cent of women attend one, compared with 18 per cent of men.
However, the report goes on to find that eight per cent of women attending a Russell Group university compared with 6.5 per cent of men. At older established universities women generally outnumber men – 11.3 per cent of them enrolling compared with 8.6 per cent of men. Only at Oxford and Cambridge is there any equality of representation – 0.7 per cent of each sex attend Oxbridge.
When it comes to degree passes, 63.9 per cent of women graduates obtain a "good" degree (first or upper second) compared with 59.9 per cent of men. The percentage of women obtaining a first (13 per cent) is lower than that of men (13. 9per cent), but because their overall numbers are so much greater, this still means that more women than men are now leaving university with a first.
The report also shows that women outnumber men on most courses – including law and medicine courses – which ultimately lead to high paid employment. Only in technology, physical science, architecture, maths, computer sciences, and engineering are women outnumbered by men.
Despite this, women are still likely to earn a lower wage than men on leaving university. One of the reasons the report cites for this is their greater number on courses leading to jobs in teaching or the creative arts.
Women were more altruistic and valued their job environment more, the report found. They were less career driven or financially motivated.
Researchers asked whether the growing gender gap mattered, and cited evidence from the Government to the Commons select committee monitoring education which stated: "We are increasingly concerned about male participation."
However, it added that while recognising "sex inequality is clearly an issue" it did not want its remarks to imply a policy to reduce the number of women enrolling for higher education courses.
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Go into any university in the country and you will see that students taking courses in computing, science and maths subjects are predominantly male, often 90% male. This causes the subsequent inequality in salaries.
What next? Legislation to prevent employers paying computer scientists more than the average wage?
Come on.
It is a good point, though, that girls are still generally expected to go for arts and humanities and social service rather than maths and sciences, and that boys are generally expected to steer clear of subjects associated with the "feminine", and, by association, weakness, social inferiority, and even leading to accusations of being gay. Weird but true: schoolkids pass my window every afternoon, and I have often heard boys talking about how some kid at school must be gay because he prefers arts to sciences or sport. Kids tend to police their ideas of gender identity and orientations very tightly.
There is a difference still between the salaries of equally capable males and females which is not explained by the balance of gender on courses.
Being a girl is playing life on easy mode.
Also see how the suicide rates are higher for men than women in almost every single country in the world.
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Life is more difficult for males.
When I suggested I would also take some time off between contracts I was told I would be thrown out in the morning and not let back in until I came back with a job, or words to that effect. It doesn't work both ways.
The more the universities and schools focus on the Humanities to the detriment of those subjects which are actualyl important to the economy and at which men just happen to be better, the more breast-beating there will be about this topic by people who have low abstract reasoning ability (non-verbal I.Q.s) and therefore can't see what the actual problem is.
Science teaching is difficult, expensive, offers little opportunity for Cultural Marxist brainwashing but is nevertheless the sine qua no of a successful economy and has been ever since the Industrial Revolution. This country will not be successful again when every last nitwit has a degree at least in Applied Marxist Theory in the study of the Illusion of Racial Identity.
Boys are being let down badly by being offered nothing but girlie subjects and badly taught maths and hard science and the decision to use funding to force universities to deprecate science and engineering in favour of cheaper and less useful subjects is disgraceful. The preponderance of cheap useless ersatz science courses is also a matter of concern.
Maybe, you are.
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I was not aware that the word 'women' had a 2 in it.
Dim people crack me up
The real question is whether boys should be forced to conform to the education system that is biased against them, or should the education system be modified to take 'masculine' qualities into account. I guess this hinges on whether in one's opinion masculine qualities are as virtuous as 'feminine' qualities. Some believe that the predominance of feminine qualities will eventually create a better and more peaceful world. However one only has to visit a work environment where the staff is predominantly female, for this theory to be seriously challenged. As the situation exits today, masculine qualities, regardless of whether they are beneficial for, or damaging to, society, are being downplayed, at the expense of female virtues such a conformity, co-operation, and co-existence (whether harmonious or otherwise). Until efforts are consciously made to offset this imbalance, a very large percentage of boys will continue to 'fall through the cracks'. However because society needs initiative and the kind of creativity that comes with original thinking, a few men will still dominate things from the top. Thus society is evolving in a way that reflects the predators in the animal kingdom.
I could agree with that, but isn't this true in organisations as much as in education?
So why are women failing to get rewarded with higher salaries?
It's interesting how men seem to blame the education system for the shortcomings of our young boys. What if the girls are outshining our boys because they are generally more intelligent and it is only in modern times that girls have the right to an equal education to boys? Just some food for thought :-)
What this article points out that the amount of financial benefit a person receives depends upon who they are.
Women receive less financial return. Probably, if the research was done, we would probably find that children of deprived families would receive less financial return / lower salaries, because they are less well-equiped to launch themselves into high-earning careers, and have fewer connections.
Another set of facts undermining the case for university fees.