How pleased are feminists that the percentage of male college graduates has now dropped to 41%? How low would they like to see it go?

(http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-34090357_ITM )

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• Actually, there have been plenty of articles about this problem in Newsweek and Time in recent years.

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  by Anonymous on April 6th, 2009

• Feminists silence on this issue is deafening. Were women at 41% (and dropping) and men at 59% (and rising), feminists would be shouting sexism and discrimination from the rooftops. But, since boys and men are down, all you hear from feminists is the sound of crickets. Obviously, they like it this way.

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  by Brandon on April 6th, 2009

• Kendall, can you list any references or did you make that up?

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  by 23Skidoo on April 11th, 2009

• Whenever there's inequality that feminists don't approve of, they talk about it, protest, and blog about it. At the current rate of decline the ratio will be at or near 70% female, 30% male between 2020 and 2025.
   
  http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d07/tables/dt07_258.asp
   
  The fact that feminist websites, blogs, and organizations are 100% silent on this issue shows their approval.

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  by Brandon on April 12th, 2009

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• Feminists' silence on this issue says it all. Were feminists truly for equality and not female superiority, they would be pushing for 50/50 graduation rates, not silently and contentedly accepting 59/41.

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  by Brandon on April 6th, 2009

• I'm not sure the "Men don't have to go to college" argument cuts the mustard.
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  Even if male high school grads make more money (another one I'm not sure of just from personal experience - girls usually got waitress/bar tending jobs making great tips while more guys ended up in the kitchen making 1/3 or less) highschool grads make far less than college grads.
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  by 23Skidoo on April 11th, 2009

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• Loaded in what way? Feminists are 100% silent on the issue. Based on current trends, it will be 80/20. Were it the reverse, feminists would be frothing at the mouth demanding that the government pass some sort of education equality bill, to ensure 50/50 graduation outcome even if girls study harder than boys.

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  by G82 on March 25th, 2010

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• Feminists are completely silent on the issue. Were it the reverse, there would be a government agency to address the "sexist" imbalance, headed by angry frothing at the mouth feminists. More evidence that equality is far from their aim.

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  by G82 on March 25th, 2010

• I wish feminists truly sought equality.

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  by Vazzini on April 7th, 2010

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• "males can't finish what they have started." Spoken like a true feminist.

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  by G82 on March 25th, 2010

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• Is that also your opinion of the so-called gender "wage gap", that it is the result of choice rather than discrimination?

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  by Felix on June 14th, 2009

• Your going to have to be a little more specific, but wage gaps are a whole different story.

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  by broken_beauty17 on June 14th, 2009

• Feminists claim that the so-called wage gap where men earn more than women is not because women choose different careers, work less hours, work more part time, sacrifice their careers more often for their families, etc. They claim it is due to discrimination. Since you believe that the education gap is due to choice, do you also believe the wage gap is due to choice?

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  by Felix on June 14th, 2009

• Well honestly, I'm not a business woman. So I'm not going to pretend that I know what it is like to be out there, competing with a man. I'm sure there are situations of both.

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  by broken_beauty17 on June 14th, 2009

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• Whatever their goal is, we do know that it's not equality, otherwise they would have complained about this long ago.

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  by Brandon on April 12th, 2009

• I agree with you there but maybe for different reasons. I, personally, don't think equality is possible. So, the movement Feminism is there to promote women's issues, concerns, advantage, etc. So are perfectly just and correct, in my view, while others aren't.
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  "Equality" has become nothing more than a label - almost devoid of its original definition.

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  by 23Skidoo on April 13th, 2009

• I agree.

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  by Brandon on April 14th, 2009