I spent 8 years as a boy in classrooms where around 66% of the students were girls (language-specialized secondary school). I get the point, but this sounds soooo strange to me. Like, seriously, what is wrong with my fellow males? What is their problem?
I'm wondering if this applies outside the USA too. In Finland e.g. biology students are almost all female, and I'd always assumed it was because competition for study places is so stiff.
"Young men are so lonely, they cannot find female companionship, probably because women are very mean these days"
Young men*: yeah, I was going to study dentistry but there were like 20 chicks in the class so I noped out rather than belittle myself by being their peer
Sounds a bit odd to me. I mean, people at the point of making career choices are typically young and single. So why wouldn't blokes go for courses where there are plenty of girls and a shortage of guys?
Market forces ffs!
The only reason I’m slightly sceptical, is that I distinctly remember being quite shallow enough at 18 to pick my degree with one eye on ensuring there’s be LOTS of women on the course…
What a bizarre, perverse and depressing finding. I could have some sympathy for these lost souls were they not a societal and sometimes physical menace to women.
Sounds bananas, but rings true from my Irish experience, too. Medicine and teaching are now majority female. The issue also is that the lads won't do the work required in secondary school to get into sought-after courses in health care, etc. Also, more trade apprenticeship options for the boys.
It’s a thing in churches too isn’t it - many being so female-heavy, I’ve seen many ‘but why don’t men come to church?!’ articles (some saying ‘we must make it less girly!’) in the part. I know twas ever thus, ie women generally more religious, but focusing on the reaction, it’s instructive, huh
I went to a couple of seminars on this as a minister in the 80s, and the consensus was that it was down to world wars. Each time, most of the males who'd survived had had the faith knocked out of them.
I don’t think that can be true. Switzerland has very similar issues. (And church attendance/ patterns of decline in the U.K. doesn’t seem to correlate with that, either).
That is very strange. Is it peculiar to America? I have a vague perception (having two university age kids) that maths/physics have increased in popularity among young men, but likely women too. Would not describe Biology as the easiest STEM but less maths than chemistry and physics and err...maths.
Well, either these studies are wrong, or the USA is a extremely weird society. In my heterosexual EU enviroment, the number of women in classes is a factor to be taken into consideration, of course 😉 but in a positive way. The higher number of females, the higher probability to join these studies.
That was the opposite of my conscious thought on this subject when I was 18 (though given I ended up in a 2/3 male course and college I obviously wasn't very good on acting on my conscious thoughts...)
1st year vet medicine course at my local uni is theory only. No practicum until 2nd year. Enrolment in year 2 conditional on over 5O% in final exam result. Uni wanted to change this delivery as too many males in the degree programme were failing end of year 1 exams. R women just better scholars?
This is something I genuinely can't understand. From personal experience I can say, that there's absolutely no better place to study for a cishet man than a super heavily feminised department. Wink wink nudge nudge.
Unless of course you follow Andrew Tate and believe touching a woman makes you gay.
It didn’t put me off doing psychology at uni in the 90s, with a 1:9 ratio of men to women. I don’t understand the desire to avoid women in class rooms, but perhaps I was making up for going to a boys school?
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I'm wondering if this applies outside the USA too. In Finland e.g. biology students are almost all female, and I'd always assumed it was because competition for study places is so stiff.
*Surplus in numbers only.
Young men*: yeah, I was going to study dentistry but there were like 20 chicks in the class so I noped out rather than belittle myself by being their peer
*NOT ALL BEFORE ANYONE STARTS
Market forces ffs!
But then I've frequently found I'm the odd one
Unless of course you follow Andrew Tate and believe touching a woman makes you gay.