Just a few years
Just a few years ago we were all lamenting how schools discriminated against girls and how we needed to boost their self-esteem. Well, we must have succeeded because now colleges are wooing men to shrink the gender gap.
[T]he U.S. Department of Education projects female students will make up 60 percent of the student body nationwide by 2010.
This year’s graduation figures show some schools in Washington already are at or near that benchmark: SPU (65 percent of graduates are female), the University of Puget Sound (64 percent), Whitworth College (62 percent), Seattle University (61 percent), The Evergreen State College (60 percent), Eastern Washington University (60 percent) and Western Washington University (59 percent).
“Women are just stronger academically in almost all the ways that count,” said Christina Hoff Sommers, author of “The War Against Boys” and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.