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Young male voters are flocking to Trump – but he doesn’t have their interests at heart
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This seems like the education gap rather than a gender gap. Women have been going to college in greater numbers for a couple of decades.
Title xi has been used for decades as well to justify accepting men into college with lower qualifications so that the male female ratio stays anywhere close to 50/50.
Edit: i am not working in college admissions but I believe it is more of a situation where if the applicants have equal merit, every effort will be to accept the men into the university to do their best to maintain more of an equal ratio. I know it’s true that colleges are having to seriously deal with this issue but I don’t believe they are accepting less qualified males over more qualified females, but if they didn’t take any steps the discrepancy between female and male acceptance rates in colleges would be even more disparaging than it already is, simply because boys are being left behind in the education system in many ways.
Ah yes, I didn't mean to imply an equity gap, just a gender gap.
Well in this sense equity I think is just a juxtaposition against equality… we all have different strengths and weaknesses as individuals, so to force equality in every aspect of our lives doesn’t really make sense.
If we aim for something like equity, where we all have more of an equal opportunity, as opposed to the forcing of an equal outcome.
But as far as education if the boys are not succeeding as well as the girls, I think it points to things we might need to look at to that we might be able to change that could help the boys. Do boys have different ways of learning, in general, than girls? What is it we are doing that is making it so girls are more successful in our education system, and are there things we can do better that would help our boys in similar way?
Equity here is not really related to anything dealing with finance, if that’s what you’re thinking. It’s about looking at what we’re doing wrong for girls and boys, and what we’re doing right for boys and girls, and doing our best to be equitable with the resources we put towards education so that we all have an equal opportunity to succeed to the best of our ability…. I think. Lol
In this use of equity we are accepting more men of equal merit than women because overall, women are doing better in school and we want to provide equitable opportunity for the most number of women and men possible, as equal as possible but in this case equity is our goal as opposed to equality. If we forced equality here women would be dominating universities (which they kind of already are)….. not sure it’s worked its way up to the faculty levels yet because of good ole boys clubs but yea….