Funny, Innit?
Following the end of World War II, doctor’s in the then Soviet Union became overwhelmingly women.
This was rapidly followed by a loss of pay and socioeconomic status for doctors.
In the 1950s, men outnumbered women 2:1 in college.
By the 1990s, the ratio was 1:1.
Today the ratio is 4:6 with fewer men than women attending college.
The question on everyone’s mind is why? Why aren’t men going to college anymore?
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While many of these reasons address why college is less appealing to boys, almost none of them address what has actually CHANGED in recent decades to cause the drop.
Many people cite the lure of trade schools and blue collar jobs as more appealing to men, but when you consider that blue collar jobs have gone down from 31.2% of total employment in 1970 to 13.6% today- why would men suddenly be more attracted to blue collar work compared to an era when these jobs were more plentiful?
As I listened to the Freakanomics podcast, I was confused why they kept skirting around the thing that has actually changed —
As an aside here, listening to or reading Freakonomics is a recipe for being stupider. (Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.)
As I showed over 15 years ago, there’s folks go out of their way to twist facts so as to come up with a counterintuitive result.
This is, as Mount Everest is, and Alma Cogan isn’t.
What has changed is an increase in girls.
When you look at other areas where this exact same thing has happened, it is not such a head scratcher why fewer men are going to college.
We’re just not talking about it.
The example of veteranarians is then given where make attendence dropped from 89% to 22.4% between 1969 and 2009.
As we’ve seen with teachers, nurses and interior design, once an institution is majority female, the public perception of its value plummets.
Scanning through Reddit and Quora threads, many men seem to be in agreement- college is stupid and unnecessary. A waste of time and money. You’re much better off going into the trades, a tech boot camp or becoming an entrepreneur. No need for college.
Gee, imagine that.
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