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| The American elite will be female |
| 2021-09-09 |
| h/t Hot Air [The Week] - Stereotypes tend to lag reality. Wall Street is personified by Gordon Gekko, years after his instinctive investing and sartorial flamboyance went out of style. We imagine the foreign policy community is reserved for lock-jawed patricians, a type that's hardly been seen for decades. Judging by movies and TV series like the The Chair, meanwhile, college is a different kind of boy's club, one dominated by strutting jocks among the students and tweedy graybeards on the faculty. But it's been a long time since that was true. Despite its anachronistic reputation, the college population is increasingly female. Surveying recent data, The Wall Street Journal finds that women made up nearly 60 percent of enrollment in the 2020-21 academic year. Women are not just more likely to attend college, but also more likely to graduate. According to the report, about two thirds of women who enroll at a four-year institution graduate within six years, compared with 59 percent of men. ...Women's success in admissions isn't only a dilemma for colleges trying to balance their books. Because elite institutions hire almost exclusively college graduates, campuses are the point of departure for female dominance of publishing, the culture industry, and areas of the corporate world — particularly the massive human resources industry. Skeptics might observe that the upper tiers of these fields remain dominated by men. That's right, but largely a generation effect. Today's non-profit trustees, tenured professors, and executive editors began their careers decades ago, when college student bodies were more equally divided (and in some cases, exclusively male). It would be surprising if the gender ratio in upper management remained the same in another 20 years. ...Even though it stands in tension with the principle that the most competent deserve their rewards, I think conservatives have the better argument. The migration of "woke" jargon from campuses to human resources divisions is annoying but not decisive. It's more important that declining educational attainment for men means lower wages and declining marriage rates, which promote family instability. In the long run, un- or under-employed men and unstable households are correlated with violent crime. It's not a straight causal arrow, but the dwindling share of men in higher education and the jobs it supplies could be downright dangerous. Not to mention that while there are women who can do traditional male jobs - they are just as common as men capable of doing traditional female jobs. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #21 Ummm, Shemale. |
| Posted by: The Traveling Unvaxed 2021-09-09 20:43 |
| #20 Will they make it to the same way as kamilla? |
| Posted by: Lemuel Omeang2211 2021-09-09 20:07 |
| #19 More men should be taking up trades anyway. Better to be a well paid plumber or electrician than a poorly paid Medieval Poetry expert/Barista. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2021-09-09 17:37 |
| #18 I remember my older sister complaining that her PhD in Education had a lower average salary than many Engineering BSs started at. I wisely didn't say a thing... |
| Posted by: magpie 2021-09-09 15:52 |
| #17 at least when they pee in the dark they wont piss all over the outhouse thrown and in a cold climate we will have legal toilet seat warmers like plantation bed warmers! remain CLAM! |
| Posted by: Skunky Gliling2010 2021-09-09 14:34 |
| #16 I foresee a future filled with unopened pickle jars, huge spiders lurking in corners and unreachable objects on high shelves. And women walking to the outhouse in the dark... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2021-09-09 13:50 |
| #15 declining educational attainment for men means lower wages This has been true in the past; but I wonder if things are changing with the oversupply of worthless degrees. The largely female BAs working as baristas at Starbucks are your first clue. The largely male welders making $90K per year without any student debt are your second clue. You may not be interested in supply and demand, but supply and demand is interested in you. |
| Posted by: Tom 2021-09-09 13:46 |
| #14 Again I say, you must look at the degrees those women are getting. And I think the really smart guys who belong in college are still there. Now they can take their pick of the Mrs. majors. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-09-09 13:17 |
| #13 ^"Fish goes bad from the head down". An old Hebrew saying. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-09-09 12:34 |
| #12 The American elite are currently garbage. |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-09-09 10:54 |
| #11 "the massive human resources industry" The same disease in it's terminal form. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-09 10:34 |
| #10 ...Remote operated machine guns, on the other hand ... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2021-09-09 10:27 |
| #9 ^Thrown tracks. Or 40 kg shells. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2021-09-09 10:18 |
| #8 Wonder how good they are in replacing a thrown track. g(r)om didn't the IDF try that with its available female resources? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-09-09 10:08 |
| #7 FOX - Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer fire back after Biden boots Trump appointees from military panels |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-09 10:00 |
| #6 ^Luckily, you've Mustangs. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB 2021-09-09 09:57 |
| #5 The dems have recently taken steps to make the Military Academy nomination and selection process more inclusive and diverse. Academy staffing continues to be filled with unwoke... you know who's, and obviously remains an issue. Much work remains yet to be done. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-09 09:42 |
| #4 I foresee a future filled with unopened pickle jars, huge spiders lurking in corners and unreachable objects on high shelves. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-09-09 09:39 |
| #3 So we're basically fucked then, right? |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-09-09 09:30 |
| #2 We've seen how that works in Academia. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-09 08:35 |
| #1 ...as men capable of doing traditional female jobs. Like Miss Nevada? XD |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-09-09 07:55 |
