‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’ - Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.
‘There Was Definitely a Thumb on the Scale to Get Boys’ - Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.
Declining male enrollment has led many colleges to adopt an unofficial policy: affirmative action for men.
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Why isn't government involved with this? Women get Title IX and men get "a thumb on the scale" and "an unofficial policy" ?
Does that seem fair to anyone?
Well no, but Title IX was only ever fair as a stop gap measure until various groups can get their footing anyhow (eg to counter act the issues that red-lining are still causing).
If there's declining male enrollment, the solution is going to be to look earlier in the school system to work out why buys aren't getting as much as girls out of class and looking to fix it. IIRC, one idea was to have boys start school a year later to counter the developmental age gap.
In any case, tipping the scales at the university level is only ever going to mask the problem. I understand the need, but by itself it's not going to work long term.